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Butler said. “With that assurance I didn’t
press the President any further ” *

after screening a judicial

fhr^ da i!i S . egal back ground, could find
the candidate unqualified, qualified or exe-
ceptionally qualified for the bench.

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nominating a person found un-
quahhecl by the ABA. If the competing caS-
di(bte s are rated qualified, any differences

na/phn"' rat ‘^ gs might be a factor the fi-
troliing 1Ce ’ bUt W0Uld by n0 means he c °"-

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hl f w dn £ S t0 he Justice Department am
the department to forward the names oi
one or more candidates to the President.

Butler said his advocacy of a candidate
other than Scott’s reflects “no deep person*
al disagreement” with the senator, but in-

nlo^nl difference ov er who is the better
prospect.

Meanwhile, the Salem-Roanoke Count;
Bar Association held a special meetim

J^lt y 3nd P o S ?f d a unanimous resold
b h °" e " dors,n g Poff for the federal judge-
ship. The association sent a copy of the

dSr ement t0 Eutler ’ Sc0tt and Prest

• ■ was endorsed earlier by the Vir.
g ' n ‘ a Trial . Lawyers Association, a state
wide organization of about 1,800 lawyers.

The World-News, Roanoke, Va., Monday, November 24,' 1975

Butler to be

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in office Friday

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Rep. Caldwell Butler will be
in his Roanoke office Friday to
see constituents.

Butler will be in his office
from 10 a.m. Appointments to
see him may be made by calling
981-1231.

Butler’s office is in Room 109
at the federal building.

Roanoke bar
endorses Poff

William B. Poff today was en-
dorsed unanimously by the Roa-
noke Bar Assocation for the post
of federal judge for the Western
District of Virginia.

The judgeship is becoming
available because of the semire-
tirement of Judge Ted Dalton.

Poff and Glen Williams of
Jonesville are considered major
contenders for the judgeship.

Poff is strongly backed by Del.
M. Caldwell Butler of the 6th
Congressional* District, while
Williams has the support of U. S.

Sen. William L. Scott, who sub-
mitted his name, and Rep. Wil-
liam Wampler of the 9th
District.

Poff has received the endorse-
ment of several other bar asso-
ciations.

Meanwhile, the Wise County
Bar Association has endorsed
Williams for the appointment.
The association endorsed Wil-
liams at a meeting after noting
“with regret” the retirement of
Judge Dalton.

Butler, Scott differ on

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler says he isn’t
trying to undermine Sen. Wil-
liam L. Scott’s choice to fill a
federal judgeship in western
Virginia.

The two Virginia Re-
publicans have recommended
rival candidates for the post.

Scott, who has the tradi-
tional role of making such re-
commendations because he’s
Virginia’s only senator with
the same political party as the
President, submitted the name
of Jonesville attorney Glen
Williams.

Butler, however, has recom-
mended Roanoke lawyer Wil-
liam D. Poff, who also has the
backing of the Virginia Trial
Lawyers Association.

Butler said he felt com-
pelled to recommend Poff
because “it’s my responsibility
to see that we get the right
man on the bench — and that’s
Mr. Poff.’’

He said that in addition to
his feeling that Poff is better
qualified for the job, there is a
compelling geographical rea-
son for seating someone from
the Roanoke area on th bench.

Three judges on the U.S.
District Court for Western Vir-
ginia already come from the
far western part of the state.
Jonsville, where Williams re-
sides, is in Lee County, the
state’s westernmost county.

Asked whether he felt his
reecommendation of a can-
didate competing with Scott’s
was unusual, Butler said: “It’s
the usual thing for a senator to
sit down with other members
of the delegation to discuss
this sort of thing beforehand.
We didn’t proceed in this fash-
ion.’’

“It looks like President Ford

will probably pick Williams,” a
source in the Virginia con-
gressional delegation said. “Af-
ter all, Sen. Scott is a member
of th Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee. Th President will need his
help in getting whomever he
nominates to the vacancy on
the Supreme Court through
that committee.”

nominee

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Poff, 43, has been GOP
chairman in Butler’s 6th Dis-
trict.

Butler said the White House
told him Poff’s name would be
submitted along with Wil-
liams’ to the routine FBI scree-
niing all potential federal
judge candidates go through.

4 THE NEWS- VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, iVa. Tuesday, November 25, 1975

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Augusta Bar
Endorses Poff

By N-V Staff Writer
STAUNTON — The Augusta
County Bar Association has
unanimously endorsed former
Congressman William B. Poff of
Roanoke for appointment as
United States District Judge for
the Western District of Virginia
to fill a vacancy on the bench.

The endorsement came in a
resolution passed at the group’s
November meeting.

A spokesman said that copies
of the resolution will be sent to
Mr. Poff, U.S. Attorney General
Edward H. Levi, Sixth District
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, Sen.
Harry Byrd and Sen. William
Scott.

In another resolution, the Bar
Association gave a vote of ap-
proval to the Alcohol Safety
Action Project and urged its
“prompt implementation” in the
Staunton-Augusta County area.

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B-4 The Washington Star Tuesday, November 25, 1975

Rep. Butler Says He
Just Wants Best Man

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
says he isn’t trying to
undermine Sen. William L.
Scott’s choice to fill a feder-
al judgeship in western Vir-
ginia.

The two Virginia Repub-
licans have recommended
rival candidates for the
post.

Scott, who has the tradi-
tional role of making such
recom mendations because
he’s Virginia’s only senator
with the same political
party as the President, sub-
mitted the name of Jones-
ville lawyer Glen Williams.

Butler, however, has
recommended Roanoke
lawyer William D. Poff,
who also has the backing of
the Virginia Trial Lawyers
Association

BUTLER said he felt
compelled to recommend
Poff because “it’s my re-
sponsibility to see that we
et the right man on the
ench — and that’s Mr.
Poff.”

He said that in addition to
his feeling that Poff is bet-
ter qualified for the job,
there is a compelling geo-
graphical reason for seat-
ing someone from the Roa-
noke area on th bench.

Three judges on the U.S.
District Court for Western
Virginia already come from
the far western part of the
state. Jonesville, where

Williams lives, is in Lee
County, the state’s western-
most county.

Asked whether he felt his
recommendation of a
candidate competing with
Scott’s was unusual, Butler
said: “It’s the usual thing
for a senator to sit down
with other members of the
delegation to discuss this
sort of thing beforehand.
We didn’t proceed in this
fashion.”

“IT LOOKS like Presi-
dent Ford will probably
pick Williams,” a source in
the Virginia congressional
delegation said. “After all,
Sen. Scott is a member of th
Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee. Th President will need
his help in getting whomev-
er he nominates to the va-
cancy on the Supreme
Court through that commit-
tee.”

Poff, 43, has been GOP
chairman in Butler’s 6th
District.

Butler said the White
House told him Poff’s name
would be submitted along
with Williams’ to the rou-
tine FBI screening all
potential federal judge
candidates go through.

Meanwhile, Rep. William
Wampler, R-Va., an-
nounced yesterday that he
supports Scott’s recom-
mendation of Williams, who
is from Wampler’s 9th Dis-
trict.

B4 ★ Wednesday.N0V.19.1975 THE WASHINGTON POST

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Scott , Butler
Back Rivals for

Va. Judgeship

By Bill McAllister

Washington Post Staff Writer

Two Virginia Republicans,
U.S. Sen. William L. Scott and
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, have
clashed over who should be
nominated to a vacant federal
judgeship in western Virginia.

Scott has recommend Glenn
M. Williams, a Jonesville, Va.,
lawyer, and Butler has urged
the nomination of William D.
Poff, a Roanoke lawyer. Both
Williams and Poff have long
been active in the Virginia
Republican Party.

Clashes between Scott and
members of the Virginia
congressional delegation over
judgeship nominees are not

new. U.S. Rep. G. William
Whitehurst (R-Va.) broke
with Scott last year over a
nomination in eastern
Virginia.

Scott’s nominee in that flap,
J. Calvitt Clarke of Richmond,
was eventually approved as a
judge and the senator’s
membership on the Senate
Judiciary Committee, which
must review the nominees, is
generally believed to give his
nominee a better chance in the
current dispute. After the
Justice Department reviews
the candidates’ qualifications,
President Ford will select the
nominee whose name will be
submitted to the Senate for
confirmation.

Williams, 55, active in
politics since his days as a law
student at the University of
Virginia, supported Scott’s
1972 Senate campaign.
Williams described that
support yesterday, however,
as “no more active than my
campaigns for other
Republicans in the past 20
years.”

Poff, 43, has supported
Butler’s campaigns and since
1970 has been the Sixth
District Republican Party
chairman, a spokesman for
Butler’s office said yesterday.
Poff is currently a member of
the Virginia State Board of
Education. .

The nominee would replace
U.S. District Judge Ted
Dalton, 78, who last week
asked to be placed on senior
status, although he will
continue to hear cases.

In letters to President Ford
and the Justice Department,
Scott said Williams
“possesses the professional
qualifications and judicial
temperament to serve with
distinction on the federal
bench.”

THE NEWS, Lynchbing, Va., Tues., Nov. 25, 1975

scott, Butler At Odds c
Over Judgeship Nominee

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen ,
William L. Scott and R ep.
Caldwell Butler _are at odds
over whom President Ford
should nominate to a federal
judgeship in western Virginia.

The two Virginia Re-
publicans have recommended
rival candidates for the post.

Scott, who has the tradi-
tional role of making such re-
commendations because he is
Virginia’s only senator with
the same political party as the
President, submitted the name
of Glen Williams, a Jonesville,
Va., attorney.

But this recommendation
has been challenged by Butler.
He has proposed to the White
House Roanoke lawyer Wil-
liam D. Poff, who also has the

backing of the Virginia Trial
Lawyers Association.

The rift is unusual in that
House members of a state con-
gressional delegation rarely
openly challenge a judicial
nomination recommendation
made by their party’s senator
or senators.

Butler, in an interview, de-
nied that he is attempting to
undermine Scott’s choice, but
said he felt compelled to rec-
ommend Poff because, “it’s my
responsibility, to see that we
get the right man on the bench
— and that’s Mr. Poff.”

A member of the House Ju-
diciary Committee who partici-
pated in last year’s committee
impeachment vote against ex-
President Richard M. Nixon,

Scott

(Continued from B-l)

cancy on the Supreme Court
through that committee,” said
a source in the Virginia con-
gressional delegation.

Poff, 43, since 1970 has been
GOP chairman in Butler’s 6th
congressional district. He is
also a member of the Virginia
Board of Education.

Meanwhile, Rep. William
Wampler, R-Va., announced
that he supports Scott’s recom-
mendation that Williams get
the judgeship. Williams is
from Wampler’s congressional
district.

Butler complained that three
judges on the_ILS. Ditrict
Court for the Western District
of Virginia already come from
the far western part of the
state. Jonesville is located in
Lee County, the state’s west-
ernmost county, bordering
Kentucky and Tennessee, But-
ler noted.

He said that in addition to
his feeling that Poff is better
qualified for the job, there is a
compelling geographical rea-
son for seating someone from
the Roanoke area on the
bench. “Roanoke is the largest
| city in the western judicial dis-
trict,” Butler said.

Asked whether he felt his
recommendation of a can-
didate competing with Scott’s
was unusual, Butler said: “it’s
the usual thing for a senator to
sit down with other members
of the. delegation to discuss
this sort of thing beforehand.
We didn’t prpceed in this fash-
ion.”

Scott, through an aide, said
that Williams and Poff were
“both fine men.” The aide
noted that it isn’t the first time
a Scott recommendation for a
federal judgeship in Virginia
had been challenged by other
members of the delegation. He
said he was confident the Pres-
ident would give the highest
consideration to Scott’s choice.

“It looks like President Ford
will probably pick Williams.
After all, Sen. Scott is a mem-
ber of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. The President will
need his help in getting whom-
ever he nominates to the van-

, (See SCOTT, B-3, Col. 3)

T HE DAILY ADVANCE, Lynchburg, Va., Fri., Nov. 21, 1975

Panel approves
gun control bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Handgun legislation clearing its first
of many congressional hurdles would impose mandatory prison
sentences for using a handgun to commit a felony but contains no
ban on cheap handguns or any new licensing or registration
provisions for owners.

Instead, the bill sent Thursday to the House Judiciary
Committee generally deals with the handgun issue by imposing
new requirements on handgun dealers, such as increasing the
costs of their licenses.

The subcommittee on crime voted 4-3 for the bill after
working on the legislation for five weeks.

The legislation is similar to that offered by President Ford,
who opposes registration or licensing. Ford, however, proposed
the outlawing of the cheaply made, easily concealable handguns
known as Saturday Night Specials.

The mandatory sentences are 1 to 10 years for a first offense
and 2 to 25 years for a second offense. An attempt to increase these
to 2 to 10 years and 5 to 25 years was defeated.

The bill also provides for a waiting period of 21 days before
a purchase of a handgun can be completed. The wait is to permit
a local law enforcement check on an individual but does not call
for FBI verification that the buyer is not a convicted felon,
fugitive from justice or mental incompetent.

The subcommittee approved the bill after Chairman John
Conyers Jr., D-Mich., said he had been contacted by Judiciary
Committee Chairman Peter W. Rodino Jr., and House Majority
Leader Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. and told to complete his work before
the Thanksgiving recess.n

Democrat James Mann of South Carolina complained about
the pressure by the leadership, saying it had forced the subcom-
mittee to approve an inadequate bill. Mann voted against it, as did
Democrat Rep. Ray Thornton of Arkansas and Rep. John M.
Ashbrook, R-Ohio.

Voting for it were Democrats Conyers, William Hughes of
New Jersey and George E. Danielson of California, and Rep.
Robert McClory, R-Ill.

Hughes also expressed dissatisfaction with the bill, saying he
hoped a tougher bill would have better luck in the full 38-member
Judiciary Committee.

As approved, the legislation would require the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to set up a computerized handgun
tracking system, but individuals would not have to register their
weapons. Instead dealers would be required to send along lists of
serial numbers of handguns they had sold.

The only way for the federal government to trace a weapon
would be to use the computer to determine who sold it and then
to ask the dealer to identify the buyer.

Other provisions set up different licenses for wholesalers and
retail dealers, prohibit pawnbrokers from accepting handguns for
pledge or pawn and increase pawnbrokers license fees to handle
long guns.

hP in Sl t X h h Dlstrict Re P- M - Caldwell Butler’s district assistant i

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Bar ~

Endorses Poff
For Judgeship

The Roanoke Bar Association
Tuesday unanimously endorsed
Roanoke lawyer William B. Poff
for a federal judgeship.

Members, meeting briefly, ap-
proved a resolution which says
that Poff is “eminently qualified
by training, experience, disposi-
tion and demeanor” for the seat
on the U.S. District Court for
Western Virginia.

The seat will become vacant
because Federal Judge Ted Dal-
ton has requested semiretire-
ment from the bench.

Both Poff and Glen Williams,
a Jonesville lawyer, are in the
running for the appointment by
President Ford, who has sent
both names to the American Bar
Association for recommenda-
tions.

U.S. Sen. William L. Scott fa-
vors Williams for the post, while
6th District Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler is backing Poff.

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler

Butler says
he’ll ask Ford
to choose Poff

WASHINGTON— Rep. Cald-
well Butler said that when he
meets with President Ford to-
day he’ll advocate that William
B. Poff of Roanoke be named to
succeed Ted Dalton as a federal
judge for the Western District of
Virginia.

Consumer Bill

Mrs. Keith Harvey
Bedford Bulletin-Democrat
Bedford, Virginia 24523

Dear Mrs. Harvey:

. I am writing in further
reference to your correspond-
ence regarding legislation
which would establish an
Agency for Consumer
Protection (H.R. 7575).

This measure passed the
\ House on November 6 by a

j vote of 208-199. 1 voted against
- passage of H.R. 7575.

5 In view of the narrow
l margin by which this bill has
5 passed the House, and the
President’s earlier indication
that he would veto this
measure, I do not anticipate
that it will become law.

I share your pleasure at this
result.

Please do not hesitate to let
me hear from you if I may be
of service.

With kindest regards, I am

Very truly yours,

M. Caldwell Butler

U. S. Sen. William L. Scott, R-
Va., is backing Glen Williams of
Jonesville for the post.

“I have an appointment with
the President and I expect to
mention the judgeship matter to
him,” said Butler.

Butler, like Poff, is from the
6th Congressional District. Ninth
District Rep. William C. Wam-
pler is backing Williams.

Poff has been endorsed by the
Virginia Trial Lawyers Associa-
tion. Poff, 6th District GOP
chairman, has contributed a to-
tal of $2,400 to Butler’s cam-
paigns since ’72. He gave Scott
>125 in ’72.

Rep. Butler's Aide
To Be Here Tuesday

.Jeff Gregson, aide to
Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler, will be in Bedford next
Tuesday morning, Nov. 25, to
meet with any citizens who
may have problems with the
federal government. He will
be jn the conference room of
Bedford Municipal Hall from
nine to 10:30 a. m. Those with

problems should bring all
pertinent correspondence and
documents. Mr. Gregson can
help only those with problems
involving the federal govern-
ment,

fl Thp Bedford Bulletin-Democrat^

ovember 20, 1975

THE ROANOKE TIMES

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Thursday, November 20 , 1975

Poff Plea Scheduled by Butler

By WAYNE WOODLIEF
Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler, R-Va., said Wednesday he would
advocate, in a face-to-face meeting with
President Ford today, that Roanoke lawyer
William B. Poff be nominated to succeed
Ted Dalton as a U.S. Western District
judge.

Sen. William L. Scott, R-Va., has rec-
ommended that the President name Jones-
ville lawyer Glen M. Williams to the district
judgeship. Dalton plans to take semi-active
senior judge status as soon as his successor
is chosen.

Rep. William C. Wampler, R-Va., also
has endorsed Williams, in letters to the
White House and the Justice Department.
“I think Glen Williams is eminently quali-
fied,” Wampler told a reporter. “He has the
proper temperament to be a judge and his
legal competence speaks for itself.”

Wampler said, “It isn’t that I’m op-
posed to Bill Poff. He is likewise qualified.
It’s just that I’m for Glen Williams, who is
my constituent.”

Wampler’s endorsement makes But-
ler’s effort to win the nomination for Poff
that much harder. Scott already had his
status as Virginia’s senior Republican con-
gressman and as a member of the Senate

Judiciary Committee— which acts on judge-
ship confirmations— going for him.

But Butler is pressing on. “I have an
appointment with the President (today),
and I expect to mention the (judgeship)
matter to him at that time,” Butler said.

The Roanoke congressman will be at a
White House picture-taking session. He said
he would cite Poff’s qualifications to Ford.

Poff has been endorsed by the Virginia
Trial Lawyers Association. Butler said he is
encouraged by that and also by “comments
to me by members of the bar from through-
out the Western District, indicating the
high regard in which Bill Poff is held.”

Poff, the 6th District Republican chair-
man, has long been active in Southwest Vir-
ginia party affairs. He has given time and
money to the campaigns of both Scott and
Butler, though his contributions to Butler
have been greater, totaling about $2,400
since 1972.

Poff contributed $1,251 to Butler’s
campaign for Congress in 1972, according to
records of the clerk of the House. In 1974,
Poff contributed $400 to the Friends of
Caldwell Butler, the freshman congress-

man’s main re-election campaign commit-
tee. Poff also gave $750 to a Butler
Appreciation Dinner Committee.

In 1972, when Scott won his seat from
then-incumbent Sen. William B. Spong Jr
Poff gave $125 to the Scott for Senate Com-
mittee.

A search of House and Senate cam-
paign finance records indicates no contribu-
tions by Williams to Scott, Butler or
Wampler.

Williams long has been active in Re-
publican campaigns in the 9th District. He
ran unsuccessfully for the State Senate in
the late 50s, and also made a losing bid for
the district’s congressional seat while it
was held by Democrat W. Pat Jennings,
now a Washington lobbyist and formerly
clerk of the House.

Williams sought a federal judgeship
about six years ago. At that time, however,
he lost out to another Republican in the
district, Emory Widener of Bristol.

Butler has contended that with two
federal judgeships already in the hands of
9th District men-Widener and Judge
James C. Turk of Radford-the successor to
Dalton should come from the Roanoke-area
6th District.

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BANKRUPTCY LEGISLATION AND NEW YORK CITY
By Holmes) Alexander

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative M. Caldwell Butler, Republi-
can Boanoke, Va. , has had the fascinating mission of carrying the
ball for the Ford administration in the writing of bankruptcy legis-
1 at ion to apply to New York City.

Ihe fascination lies in amending the Bankruptcy Act of 1937 in
such a way as to steer a wise course toward giving New York a second
chance in self-government, while keeping a sharp eye on- two consti-
tutional landmarks .

One is the Commerce Clause which instructs Congress to
"regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states

and with the Indian tribes." The other landmark is the Obligation of
contracts Clause, which forbids Congress to pass any law "impairing"
contractual obligations.

Butler, 50, in the tradition of John Marshall and whole genera-
Virginia courthouse men, treats the Constitution as second
only in sanctity to the Ten Commandments. His conscientious
struggles as a new and minority member of the House Judiciary Commit-
t.o do what was right concerning Richard Nixon were visible on his
oxnrossive face. Bankruptcy is not as big a subject as impeachment,
but it's sizable and stimulating.

Butler is ranking minority member of the Judiciary’s subcommit-
on civil rights and constitutional rights. Don Edwards of Califor-
nia, subcommittee chairman, and Peter Rodino of New Jersey, full com-
mittee chairman, wrote the Democratic version of what is needed,
butler has been trying to insert some Republican principles. Since

ou rrou , he succeeded only in part. Republican subcommittee
members offered 23 amendments, 14 of which were accepted. The

ds— Rodino bill, while a so-so measure, would have served the
c.ity and the country better with some of Butler's refinements.

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■ALEXANDER TUESDAY, MOV. 25, 1975 OR UPON RECEIPT P. 2

For instance, the Democratic members' insisted on revising the
Bankruptcy Act's Chapter IX (which applies to political units in gen-
eral), but Butler wanted to add a new section. Chapter XVI, making the
bill apply only to cities with population of over one million. This
would discourage small cities from claiming bankruptcy privileges and
also protect their bonds .

Butler wanted a municipal balanced budget as a condition to any
bankruptcy plan for New York, feeling that the city should be forced
to lead a new fiscal life. The Democrats decided otherwise.

Butler wanted the bill to call on the chief judge of the circuit
court of appeals to designate the District Court judge who would
handle the bankruptcy proceedings . This vtfould lessen the risk of
running into a bonehead or political hack on the District Court bench.
Again, the Democrats voted him down in subcommittee.

The bill allows the city, or petitioner, to receive a "stay"
of harassments by its creditors. At this point, the presiding judge
can suspend all contracts and leases that are binding on the city.

This action would relieve the stricken city of undertakings that it
cannot financially perform, but it runs hard against the "obligation
of contracts" as protected in the Constitution. Injured parties,
including Labor unions, would have a right to sue for damages.

There is the possibility that the Supreme Court will find the
Edwards-Rodino package to be unconstitutional. But Democrats of the
Judiciary Committee contend that the Commerce Clause justifies all —
because the financial falldown of New York will reverberate in all
states and around the world.

Bankruptcy of a metropolis has no analogy to the bankruptcy of
a business corporation, for the latter usually is liquidated and goes
out of existence. The big city, however, lives on, and has renewable
assets in its power to raise revenues by taxation.

Although he didn't get all the improvements he tried for,

Butler told me he was sure this was a bill which President Ford
would sign.

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Lebanon civil war was backdrop
to Craigsville woman's marriage

By JOHN A. MILLER

Leader Staff Writer

In case of civil war, hole up in the family
home in a mountain village away from the
fighting, play cards daily, go to movies
every night and try to squeeze your
wedding into a cease fire.

This was Hani Baramki’s prescription
for life in Lebanon during the past six
months, and for his marriage this summer
to Sandra Showker, 19, of Craigsville. As
his wedding day approached, the 25-year-
old Mr. Baramki, a native of Beirut, had to
contend with a civil war in his homeland.

Comfortably seated in a Staunton
residence next to a street free of the
mortar, rocket and machine gun fire that
is raining on Beirut now, the newlyweds
talked of postponed wedding dates, sleep
interrupted by explosions, a mad dash to
safety by car through suburban streets
and an extended and unscheduled six-week
stay in Egypt.

The story began April 22 when Mrs.
Baramki, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy
Showker Sr. of Craigsville, arrived in
Beirut to meet the family of her fiance,
Mr. Baramki, ,and visit some of her distant

Lebanese relatives. The couple had met
and become engaged while he was visiting
his brother in Staunton during the first
part of 1974.

What had begun as skirmishes between
Moslem and Christian militiamen rapidly
escalated to heavy fighting during May,
forcing postponement of their marriage
from May 18 until June 29.

Mr. Baramki’s family, which is Greek
Orthodox, had retreated to an apartment
in a mountain village. Traditionally, the
mountains had offered a cool refuge from
Beirut’s sweltering 100-plus degree days
during the summer. Now, the city’s
Christian population, which Mr. Baramki
estimated at 75 per cent of the total, used
the homes to escape the rapidly developing
civil war.

The Baramki family had little choice in
the matter since their Beirut home was cut
off from electricity and water and was
surrounded by fighting.

In addition, Mr. Baramki said his father
was prevented from operating his importr
export business in Beirut. The same
business had employed the younger Mr.
Baramki, also.

The hustle of life in a cosmopolitan city

known as the banking and tradiig center
of the Middle East was replacedwith the
quiet home-centered life in a vilage. As
the weeks dragged on, daily fanily card
games merged with evening television,
which had reasonably accurate iccounts
of the day’s fighting, said Mr. Biramki

Nightly movies at a local movie theater
were a staple, but as Mrs. Baram'i noted,
the films were three- or four-year-old
American ones.

The June 29 wedding date hai to be
scrapped since fighting and blocked roads
prevented access to the Greek Crthodox
Church in Beirut, selected as the site of the
wedding. Finally, on July 6, there was
enough of a lull in the fighting to gather 75
friends and family for the exchange of
vows at the church.

After a brief honeymoon at a nearby
resort hotel in the mountains, Mrs.
Baramki filed for an immigrant visa for
her husband at the American Embassy.
Lebanese mail service had ground to a halt
during the fighting and it became a
monumental task to assemble the
documents required by the embassy, said
Mrs. Baramki. * /

JQiejcouple.^ives credit to the office of
U.S. Rep. M. Caldwell Butler for ex-

pediting the situation, even to the point of
helping to find space in American
diplomatic pouches for some of the
documents.

During the long waiting period, the
couple took an airline flight to Egypt. “I
wanted my wife to meet my family there,” }

(See COUPLE, Page 2)

said Mr. Baramki.

However, a planned seven-
day stay in Egypt stretched to
45 days as the couple had to
cancel successive return
flights because of the risk of
being stranded at the Beirut
airport upon their return.

The day they finally chose to
arrive, Oct. 8, turned out to be
one of the worst due to an at-
tempted plane hijacking
shortly before by armed men.
Consequently, the airport was
off-limits except to employees
and security personnel.

With nobody there to meet
them, the couple was forced to
pay a taxi driver three times
the normal rate to “risk his
; life”, as Mr. Baramki put it,

J* and drive them to the nearest
pShotel where they could meet his __
father.

Eventually arriving at the
home of Mr. Baramki’s cousin
in the fashionable Hamra
section of Beirut, the couple
stayed three days. Mrs.
Baramki said the sounds of
machine gun and mortar fire
punctuated the nights and she
was “scared”. Her husband
tried to calm her with
assurances that it was only
men working on the streets, but
she knew better, she added.

Their next stop was at the
home of Mr. Baramki’s aunt.
While eating Sunday dinner
there, a machine gun rattled
outside and Mrs. Baramki
said: “Let’s go. I’ve had
enough.”

Advised by the local police
not to stop for anyone, Mr.
Baramki’s father drove at
breakneck speeds through the
suburbs of Beirut up to the
safety of the family’s mountain
residence.

Several more weeks of

sporadic trips to the AmeriJ
Embassy “from cease-fire]
cease-fire” did not produce i
hoped-for immigrant’s vi^
Finally, on Nov. 6, a counsel!
there gave Mr. Baramki n
file to hand carry to Greece f^
final processing because, k
said, the lives of the coupll
would be endangered by tryinl
to stay and finish paper work!

Hurriedly packing, the
couple was able to depart b\
plane three days later during!
what news reports said was the]
12th cease-fire for the
beleaguered country. The visa
was approved in Greece in two
days.

After a stop in Switzerland to
visit one of Mr. Baramki’s
brothers, the couple winged its
wav tfl Jhe. Shenandoah Valley
Airport and an emotional
reunion with an anxious
mother of the bride and other
members of the Showker
family.

Socializing and meeting
relatives since their arrival
has kept the couple so busy that
Mr. Baramki noted he hasn’t
even had time to watch
newscasts on U.S. television of
battles raging in his city.

However, he probably
prefers to try and retain an
image of another Beirut than
that which would come across
on television screens. “Beirut
was a beautiful city,” he said
wistfully. “It’s called Swit-
zerland east.”

He gestures toward some
Beirut newspapers scattered
on a coffee table showing the
deserted streets that were once
bustling and crowded. “Now
it’s empty. The shops are
destroyed and the people have
no jobs.”

THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Saturday, November 29, 1975 15

Roanoke (ap) if c on

re-election next year it is

Smi V ' rginia Re P ublica ns

Will make much of an effort to
oppose him, says Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler, R-Va.

Dlstric t congressman
sa d Fnday he believes Byrd
will have clear sailing as far as
WJP opposition is concerned
because of two factors:
--Republican Gov. Mills God-
win s announced intention to
support Byrd should he seek re-
election. Both Godwin and Byrd
are former Democrats.

belief that up to now
there has been no great interest

among Republicans to nominate
a candidate to challenge Byrd

While Byrd has not declared
officially he will seek re-election
|n 1976 most political observers
feel Byrd’s candidacy is a
foregone conclusion.

For a man not seeking offi-
cially to return to office, Byrd
did rather well at a Nov. 11 fund-
raismg dinner in Richmond. The
»l00-a-plate dinner on the eve of
his 10th anniversary of assuming
a Senate seat netted the Byrd
campaign treasury about $60,000
after expenses.

Godwin, a long-time political
associate of Byrd, helped or-
ganize the dinner, and told the

N° (j up Opposition

dinner guests that Virginia “can

HI afford to lose Byrd in these
perilous times.”

At this moment, it appears
only northern Virginia Demo-
crat Elmo Zumalt, the retired
chief of naval operations, is
prepared to meet Byrd headon.

Zumwalt has indicated he will
seek the Democratic senatorial
nomination next year.

Byrd took his seat in the Sen-
ate in 1965 when his father,
Harry Byrd Sr., retired before
completing, a six-year term.
Byrd, then a Democrat, won a
special senatorial election in
1966 for the remainder of the
unexpired term. Then, in 1970 as

an independent, he won his first
full term.

Butler said any candidate who
wantetLio stay-in the political
ring with Byrd would have to
have strong statewide support —
and that was not the case in 1970
when the Republicans
nominated Del. Ray L. Garland,
R-Roanoke, to oppose Byrd and
Democratic nominee George
Rawlings of Fredericksburg.

Byrd won easily, getting 54 per
cent of the vote. Rawlings
collected 31 per cent and Gar-
land trailed with 15 per cent.

“With all due respect to ‘Petie’
Garland," Butler said, the

nominee just did not have the
statewide support.

Queried about the 1978 sena-
torial election, Butler said he
has not considered seeking the
GOP nomination for Virginia’s
other U. S. Senate seat held by
Sen. William L. Scott, R-Va.
Scott ’s term expires a t the end of
1978.

There has been talk among
some GOP circles that Butler
might be a good choice for
Scott’s seat in 1978 if Scott de-
cides not to run again.

Butler also said he believed
President Ford should be the
GOP presidential nominee in
1976 because “he has done a

. Byrd

good job." The congressmai
said former California Gov
Ronald Reagan has much sup
port in Virginia but that he
doubted if Reagan has enough
support to win the GOP nomi-
nation over Ford.

JHE NEWS, Lynchburg. Va„ Sat.,

Butler Says Chance Slim
GOP To Field Byrd Foe

ROANOKE (AP) Rep. M
Caldwell Butler, R-V a ., said
Friday he doubts, there will be
a strong Republican effort to
nominate a candidate to op-
pose Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., I-
Va., if he runs for re-election.

The 6th District con-
gressman said this belief is
strengthened because of the
position of Republican Gov
Mills Godwin and also because
at this point he sees no strong
interest among Republicans to
put up a candidate against
Byrd, a former Democrat.

Godwin, also a former Dem-
ocrat, plans to support Byrd if
he runs again next year.

Although Byrd has not de-
clared formally that he will
seek re-election in 1976, $60,000
was raised for. his campaign
treasury during a testimonial
dinner in Richmond Nov. 11.

At that dinner Godwin said
Virginia “can ill afford to lose
Byrd in these perilous times.”

Retired Chief of Naval Oper-
ations Elmo Zumwalt, who
lives in northern Virginia, has
indicated he will seek the Dem-
ocratic nomination to oppose
an expected independent re-
election bid by Byrd.

Byrd was appointed to the
Senate in 1965 when his father,
Harry Byrd Sr., retired before
completing a six-year term.
Byrd, as a Democrat, won a
special senatorial election in
1966 for the remainder of the
unexpired term, and then, in
1970 as an independent, he won
his first full term.

Butler said any candidate
would have to have strong
statewide support to stay in
the political ring with Byrd.

“With all due respect to
Petie Garland,” Butler said,
Virginia Republicans were not
behind the Roanoke delegate
in 1970 when he opposed Byrd.
Byrd got 54 per cent of the

vote and Garland got 15 per
cent, while George Rawlings of
Fredericksburg, the Democrat-
ic nominee, got 31 per cent.

On other issues, Butler said
he has given no thought to
seeking the GOP nomination
for Virginia’s other U. S. Sen-
ate seat when Republican Sen.
William L. Scott’s term ex-
pires. That race will be in 1978.

Some prominent Re-
publicans have suggested that
Butler might seek the seat
should Scott decline to seek re-
election.

Butler also said he believed
President Ford sould be the
GOP presidential nominee in
1976 because “he has done a
good job.” The congressman
said former California Gov.
Ronald Reagan has much sup-
port in Virginia but that he
doubted if Reagan has enough
support to win the GOP nomi- 1
nation over Ford.

Butler doubts that Byrd
will be opposed by GOP

, . Qnntt’c tprm pxnires at thi

ROANOKE (AP) - If Sen
Harry F. Byrd Jr., I-Va., seeks
re-election next year it is
doubtful Virginia Republicans
will make much of an effort to
oppose him, says Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler, R-Va.

The 6th District con-
gressman said Friday he be-
lievejs Byrd will have clear sail-
ing as far as GOP opposition is
concerned because of two fac-
• Republican Gov. Mills
Godwin’s announced intention
to support Byrd should he seek
reelection. Both Godwin and
Byrd are former Democrats.

• The belief that up to now
there has been no great in-
terest among Republicans to
nominate a candidate to
challenge Byrd.

While Byrd has not declared
officially he will seek re-elec-
tion in 1976, most political ob-
servers feel Byrd’s candidacy
is a foregone conclusion.

For a man not seeking of-
ficially to return to office,
Byrd did rather well at a Nov.

11 fund-raising dinner in Rich-
mond. The $100-a-plate dinner
on the eve of his 10th an-
niversary of assuming a Senate
seat netted the Byrd campaign
treasury about $60,000 after ex-
penses.

Godwin, a long-time politi-
cal associate of Byrd, helped
organize the dinner, and told
the dinner guests that Virginia
“can ill afford to lose Byrd in
these perilous times.

At this moment, it appears
only northern Virginia Demo-
crat Elmo Zumwalt, the retired
chief of naval operations, is
prepared to meet Byrd headon.

Zumwalt has indicated he
will seek the Democratic sena-
torial nomination next year.

Byrd took his seat in the
Senate in 1965 when his father,
Harry Byrd Sr., retired before
completing a six-year term.
Byrd, then a Democrat, won a
special senatorial election in
1966 for the remainder of the
unexpired term. Then, in 1970
as an independent, he won his
first full term.

Butler said any candidate
who wanted to stay in the po-
litical ring with Byrd would
have to have strong statewide
support — and that was not the
case in 1970 when the Re-
publicans nominated Del. Ray

L. Garland, R-Roanoke, to op-
pose Byrd and Democratic
nominee George Rawlings of
Fredericksburg.

Byrd won easily, getting 54
per cent of the vote. Rawlings
collected 31 per cent and Gar-
land trailed with 15 per cent.

“With all due respect to
‘Petie’ Garland,” Butler said,
the nominee just did not have
the statewide support.

Queried about the 1978 sena-
torial election, Butler said he
has not considered seeking the
GOP nomination for Virginia’s
other U. S. Senate seat held by
Sen. William L. Scott, R-Va.

Scott’s term expires at the end
of 1978.

There has been talk among
some GOP circles that Butler
might be a good choice for
Scott’s seat in 1978 if Scott de-
cides not to run again.

Butler also said he believed
President Ford should be the
GOP presidential nominee in
1976 because “he has done a
good job.” The congressman
said former California Gov.
Ronald Reagan has much sup-
port in Virginia but that he
doubted if Reagan has enough
support to win the GOP nomi-
nation over Ford.

- ; i<p

Staunton, Va., Leader, Tuesday, Nov, 25, 1975

7 *~- Mr - «* Mrs.

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j was Sandn

(Photo by John A. Mi]

Miller)

City begins adding

costs of annexation

Figures showing how much Lynchburgjs
annexation of 25 square miles of Campbell and
Bedford counties wjll cost taxpayers of the
enlarged city are now being prepared by the
city administrative staff and will be released to
the public as soon as they are completed.

The announcement that the figures are
being prepared and will be made public comes
from city Manager David B. Norman.

Norman said the figures being readied by
his staff do include projected revenue figures
as well as anticipated expenditures.

Both City Council and city administrative
officials have been sharply criticized in recent
months for not having made public figures
relating' to the costs of annexation.

Norman noted, however, that the estimated
cost figures were presented by the city as a
part of its annexation testimony during the
court battle before the three-judge annexation
panel.

The cost figures presented at that time
were widely publicized by the newspapers and
other media, Norman said.

He pointed out that those figures have
changed considerably, however, as the result of
changes made by the court in the land area to
be annexed on Dec. 31, 1975, changes in the
facilities to be provided by the city, and the
fact that costs are skyrocketing because of
inflation.

The Citizens Committee to Oppose Annexa-

( tion in October said the city’s annexation will
costs residents of the expanded city .$80.5 jnil-
lion.

— -■ CCOA said its figure was based on court-

ordered payments from Lynchburg to the coun-
ties, initial court-ordered capital improvements
and five years’ operating costs for the addi-
tional services the city would provide in the
annexed area.

Norman had no comment on that figure
but said the city wants to make its figures
public just as soon as they are prepared.

He noted that while costs have been in-
creasing there also are changes in revenue.

Norman pointed out that there has been
some new construction as well as real estate
reassessments.

Both CCOA and Campbell County, as well
as many individual residents of both the areas
to be annexed and the present city, have con-
tended that annexation is not economically
feasible.

W. T. Hadden, public relations chairman
for CCOA, said that organization’s cost figures
will be used in its legal fights against annexa-
tion.

The suggestion also has been made that the
city postpone the slated annexation by three to
five years but Norman pointed out that costs
undoubtedly will continue to climb in that
period and that annexation could wind up
costing even more.

“We are in a period of recession,’’ he said,
“and should take advantage of certain lower
costs such as contractual costs for improve-
ments.”

Wiley & Wilson is working with the city as
consultants in the annexation case but Norman
said no one firm was retained to make a
specific and detailed report on annexation
costs.

THE DAILY ADVANCE

LYNCHBURG, VA., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1975 7

Area Visit Set
By Butler Aide

Sixth District Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler’s district assis-
tant will be in the supervisors’
room in the Amherst County
Courthouse Tuesday from 1
p.m. to 5 p.m. to meet with
residents wishing to discuss
problems they are having with
the federal government.

■ the NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Saj ,~ Nov

• 22, 1975

TH E NEWS, Lynchb urg, Va., Sun., Nov. 23, 1975

Downing Urges Start

Of Offshore

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP)
~ Virginia Rep. Thomas N.
Downing said Saturday that
the United States should “uni-
laterally” extend its offshore
boundaries to 200 miles and
immediately begin deep-sea
mining.

The 1st District Democrat
said such steps should be taken
now to “protect our national
interest.”

Downing, chairman of the
House subcommittee on
merchant marine, said the ac-
tion should be taken as an in-
terim measure until a work-
able international law of the
seas can be agreed upon
through the United Nations’
Law of the Seas conferences.

The congressman made his

Mining

comments during opening cer-
emonies for the Center for
Oceans, Law and Policy at the
University of Virginia law
school here.

Downing said the need for
an accepted and workable in-
ternational law regulating the
use of the oceans and their
resources is “pronounced.”
Without effective interna-
tional law, he said, “I fear that
the great resources (of the
oceans) may be prostituted.”
The congressman added,
however, that he believes the
prospects for an international
law being agreed upon are re-
mote in the near future.

The problem, Downing said,
should and ought to be re-
solved by international agree-
ment, but due to the complex-
ities of the situation “the reso-
lution of these problems by the
international community may
have many, many, many years
to go.”

Downing said boundaries
should be extended to 200 miles
mainly to protect the U.S. fish-
ing industry. /

Byrd Calls For Less

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Mon., Nov. 24, 1975

Federal Dictation

HARRISONBURG (AP) — Calling anew for
the nation to “get federal spending under
control,” Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., Ind-Va., said
Sunday night that governmental program con-
trols must be moved from Washington to the
individual states and communities.

“I believe that excessive regulation and
control in Washington leads to a great deal of
duplication and waste,” Byrd said.

Byrd was the welcoming speaker of a three-
day conference sponsored by the Virginia In-
stitute for Educational Finance, a Madison
Collge-based organization.

Th conference has drawn more than 100
state educational finance officers and other
educational administrators, most of them from
southeastern states.

Citing “too much dictation from Washing-
ton,” Byrd blamed the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare for “a completely un-
warranted intrusion into the operation of our
public schools.” One example of this, he said,
was HEW’s “power seizure” in regulations re-
quiring a record “of every disciplinary action
in every public school in the United States.”

He reported the Chesapeake city school
suprintendent estimated the regulations would
have added more than 15 school workers at
taxpayers’ expense to maintain the records

Byrd said he protested the regulations and
HEW Secretary David Mathews has advised
him the regulations are being nullified.

The HEW’s “arbitrary grasp of power”
trend, Byrd said, “is evident ... in almost every
departmeent in government.”

He cited eeconomic studies showing that
“the cost of federal regulation in business and
industry has played a significant part in th cost
of living.”

Byrd said the nation must reject “the thor-
oughly discredited solution” of more govern-
ment regulation and spending.

He said “we must return to the fundamen-
tal principles for which the Revolution was
fought and upon which the constitution was
based: freedom from oppression and individual
liberty. If we are to accomplish that, we shall
have to have alert, well educated, well in-
formed citizens.”

Byrd, noting the theme of the conference
was “Accountability,” said “it is a good word”
because “the stewardship of public funds never
has been more important.”

Sunday night’s keynote speaker, Dr. Roe L.
Johns of the University of Florida, spoke on
improving the equity of school finance pro-
grams.

i * * * > * <

THE ROANOKE TIMES

1" ' Barton W. Morris, Publisher Richard F. Barry, III. President

' *3en J. Bowers, Executive News Editor Norwood C. Middleton. Managing Editor
l Harold Sugg, Editorial Page Editor

Editorials

*r —

—

the ABA

Monday, November 24, 1975

mfmr ' '

President Ford and the Justice De-

partment should pay attention to what
a panel of the American Bar Associa-
tion finds about possible judges for
the Western District of Virginia. The
politics of the matter are that federal
judgeships are peculiarly the province
■of senators and U.S. Sen. William L.

• Scott wants Glen M. Williams of
Jonesville. But Rep. Caldwell Butler,
a younger man who will be around in
politics a longer time, prefers William
B. Poff. of Roanoke. The service to
the Republican Party over the years
of the Butler/Poff combination proba-
bly outweighs that of the Scott/ Jones
duo. Geography has a bit to do with
it and that slightly favors Mr. Poff.

Intriguing as they are, the political
and geographic factors are as nothing
compared to the importance of a fed-
eral judgeship to the welfare of South-
west Virginia. The area has had
excellence under Judge Ted Dalton,
who is choosing semi-retirement as a
senior judge. An informed opinion of
an ABA panel would do a great deal
to assure Southwest Virginia that ex-
cellence will continue to be the stan-
dard.

fate of tax reform bill

U.S. Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
expressed disappointment over
the recent fate in the Ways and
Means Committee of a tax
reform bill that is now before
the U.S. House of Represen-
tatives.

ihe tax reform legislatioi
before us does not have mam
changes,” said Rep. Butlei
while in Staunton City Hall t<
meet constituents Monday. “I
isn’t a loophole plugger.”

At one point, it was said the
reform bill would have raisec
an additional $2.6 billion ir
revenue in 1976. “The com-
mittee has talked more than il
acted,” he commented.

Instead of raising revenues,
the legislation turns out to be a
tax cut, he added.

“I’m not sure the committee

yielded to lobbying pressures,”
he noted. “Somewhere along
the line they lost steam.”

dividual nature, he explained.

Several persons wanted the
new Real Estate Settlement
Procedures Act repealed, he
said. Lenders and real estate
agents told him that the
legislation created problems
for them in closing loans.

“It was supposed to be
consumer-oriented, but it
created more problems than it
solved,” Rep. Butler noted.
Changes to solve the problems
have been passed by both
houses of Congress and the
differences are being resolved
in committee, he added.

Rep. Butler said he spoke
individually with ap-
proximately 20 persons during
during each of his two-hour
sessions in Council Chambers
at Staunton City Hall and in his
office at Waynesboro. Most of
the concerns were of an in-

7— David Schlabach,
Crouch and Wilson

30 Staunton, Va., Leader, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1975

Rep. Butler schedules meetings

Sixth District U. S. Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler will visit
Waynesboro and Staunton
Monday to hold open door
meetings with residents
wishing to discuss issues in-
volving the federal govern-
ment.

Mr. Butler will conduct the
open door meeting in

Waynesboro from 10:30 a.m-
12:30 p.m. at his office in the
Federal Building. He will hold
the Staunton open door
meeting from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at
the City Council Chambers in
City Hall.

“It is important for me to be
aware of the problems and
views of the people I

s-virs:

& THE NEWS-VIRSINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Wednesday, November

19, 1975

Butler Plans
Area Meetings

Sixth District Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler has announced that
he will be in Waynesboro and
Staunton Nov. 24 to hold “open
door meetings” with con-
stituents who want to discuss
issues involving the federal
government.

He will be in Waynesboro from
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at his
office in the Federal Building.
He will be in Staunton from 1:30
to 3:30 p.m. at City Council
Chambers in City Hall.

Mr. Butler asked those who
come to bring all papers and
correspondence dealing with the
case.

Appointments are not needed,
but can be made by calling the
Waynesboro office at 942-7758.
Toll free calls from Staunton can
be made by dialing “O” and
asking for Enterprise 758.

represent,” Rep. Butler said in
announcing the meeting.
“Meeting and talking with
people face to face is the best
means of communication I
know.”

The Congressman said he
hopes the meeting will be at-
tended both by those who are
experiencing a difficulty with
the federal government and by
those who wish to discuss
issues now before Congress.

Rep. Butler said that ap-
pointments are not essential,
but if possible should be made
by contacting his Waynesboro
office at 703-942-7758. If calling
from Staunton, the office may
be reached toll free by dialing
“O” and asking for Enterprise
758.

Rep. Butler urged persons
wishing to discuss a particular
problem to bring with them all
papers and correspondence
dealing with the case, in ad-
dition to their veterans claim
and Social Security numbers.

Prior to the open door meet-
ings, a press conference will be
held by Mr. Butler at 10 a.m. at
his office in Waynesboro.

COVINGTON, VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1975

Resolution Is Approved

Th^ B !u LLU ^ IPKIN sufficient to allow the city plant (EPA) and the State Water funds eithor th* arp mm

night to adopt a motion
amending a proposed resolution
requesting Waste Water
Treatment Works Construction
grants for Covington and
Western Alleghany County to
specify that county customers
will pay no more for the same
sewage treatment services than
city customers.

As explained by County
Adminstrator Nelson E.
Thomas the board of Super-
visors has virtually committed
itself by previous resolutions to
the federal government’s
concept of two regional waste
treatment plants serving all of
Alleghany County — one for
Clifton Forge and the east end
of the county and one for
Covington and the west end of
the county. In both cases,
federal funds would be used to
upgrade existing sewage
treatment plants in each city to
serve the surrounding areas of
the county as well.

He said the City of Covington
recently passed a resolution
agreeing to this regional con-
cept for Covington and western
Alleghany County and seeking
enough federal grant funds to
finance the planning of the
sewage system improvements

from Island Ford Bridge to
Callaghan. This would include
only plans for plant im-
provement, not the collector
system.

Thomas Exolains
Thomas said the Clifton
Forge City Council and the
Supervisors had substantially
committed themselves to the
regional concept by actions
taken in past years. He noted
the Supervisors were being
asked by City Council to accept
and endorse its resolution
requesting planning grant funds
for Waste Water Treatment
Works improvements based on
the regional concept, provided
the amendment on the sewage
treatment rates is included. The
City would have to adopt a
separate resolution later to ask
fund for construction of sewer
plant improvements.

Board member David L.
Waters contended the decision
on whether to approve the
resolution or not was a very
serious one, because approval
would virtually eliminate the
board being able to participate
in any alternative to the
regional concept. Thomas noted
that both the federal En-
vironmental Protection Agency

specify that county users will meet the requirements for an
pay no more than city users for j ARC grant, but if it doesn’t he
the same service. has been notified the county is

Supervisor Carl E. Cole made eligible for a HUD discretionary

ie motion tn a nnrmm kl^i- 4. rm 1 .. . J

the motion to approve the Waste
Water Treatment Grant
resolution, and it was seconded
and carried without dissent.

Garage Gets Top Priority
On recommendation of
Thomas, the supervisors voted
to make construction of a school
bus maintenance garage their
No. l priority if the pending
application to the Appalachian
Regional Commission is suc-
cessful or if this application
fails, but Development
Dsicretionary Grants being
sought from the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop-
ment are approved.

Thomas has already filed an
ARC grant seeking $125,000 for
the bus garage. It was denied
last month, but he is planning to
reapply, and provide additional
information on the urgent neei

block grant. The latter is the
kind of grant which the Board of
Supervisors can determine for
itself how to spend the money.

Types Of Grants Discussed
According to Thomas, the
board’s original plans were to
use any HUD discretionary
grant funds received for
completion of the Low Moor
water system, but since this
moneh probably will not be
needed for a year, they would
be willing to make the bus
garage their No. 1 priorty for
the current grant year. The
request for a block grant for the
Low Moor project could be
renewed the following year, he
noted.

On motion of Cole, seconded
by Waters, the board voted
unanimously to make the bus
garage their No. 1 priority for
use of any grant money

for the garage.

o \ gram money

He told the Supervisors he has received from ARC or HUD
been working with Del. William Commonwealth’s Attorney C
T. Wilson, Dusan Cvizic of the W. Allison Jr. had warned the
county schools administrative board “Don’t fool with those -
staff, and Sixth District its likely to take 10 years to get
Congressman M. Caldwell any money.”

\Butler on trying to get these Board Chairman Charles E.

— Vass Jr., noted he voted for the

motion to give the bus garage
No. l priority for grant funds,
but he shares some of Allison’s
skepticism about grants and
hopes there is no undue delay in
getting the funds.

Town House Approved
Thomas told the board E. C.
Dressier of Dressier Estates
wants the supervisors approval
for a six-unit Town House to be
built west of Dressier States
Subdivision in Intervale and
noted the County Planning
Commisiion has recommended
approval of the request.

On motion of Cole, seconded
by Waters, approval was
granted. It was noted after the
meeting, that a town house
would be a new type of struc-
ture for Alleghany County and
is not covered by the existing
subdivision ordinance. It would
probably come under a zoning
ordinance, except that the
county has none.

Water Line Proposal

Thomas said he has received
a letter from the State Health
Department approving the
proposed water line from the
Triangle to the Sharon Area,
provided that 19 minor ad-
justments are made in the
plans. He said it is estimated
that the eight-inch water main
along Route 60 serving this
system would cost $150,000 and
the water storage tank
proposed for serving this and
other areas of eastern
Alleghany County would cost
$50,000 making it a $200,000
project.

Supervisor John H. Dobbins,
who noted he has been trying to
get a line built from Triangle to
the Sharon area throughout his
eight years on the board said 65
residents of the area have
signed contracts to hook onto
the system if it is built, and at
least five other signatures have
been promised.

The Supervisors decided to
table this item again until they
have updated figures on how
much the state’s suggested 19
changes will add to the project’s
cost. Thomas said a change
order would have to be added to
the project ot include a
proposed branch line serving
residents living along Route 42.
He estimated it would take 15
days to draft new cost
estimates.

Other Matters

The board authorized Thomas
to have the county’s consulting
engineers, Martin Associates,
prepare an operation and
maintenance manual for the
Low Moor Sewage Works
project at a cost not to exceed
$3,000.

The board approved a request
by County Sheriff Max W.
Swoope to appropriate enough
funds to make possible the
purchase from C. W. Motors
Inc., a 1976 International Scout
II vehicle for his department.
The firm has agreed to allow
$3,770.25 on the department’s
present 1973 Scout, making a
trade difference of $3,700 on the
$7,470.25 cost of the vehicle. The
cost would include changing
lights and a wench from the old
vehicle to the new one..

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CLIFTON FORGE, VA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1975

Supervisors learn 65 residents sign
contracts for water in Sharon area;
Butler to aid county in seeking funds

COVINGTON — The Alleghany Mrs. Jake Cook, who has

County Board of Supervisors last spearheaded the drive to bring
night learned that 65 residents in water to the Sharon school, told the
the Sharon area have signed board “the water at the school is
contracts to use water when the unfit at times for the children to
new system is installed. drink.”

John Dobbins, Clifton District She told Thomas “you wouldn’t

Supervisor, last night said that “I want your children to drink that
have these 65 signed contracts and water which is filled iron.”
there are still some others signed Update estimate

that I have not received.” The board’s delay was caused

Earlier in the meeting, Nelson
Thomas, county administrator, had
reported that the cost of the
system, with the new plant, tank,
and eight inch line on Rt. 60 would
be $550,000.

Thomas added

Thomas added however, that
those figures do not include the 19
design changes required by the
State Health Department. The
department has approved the
project, said Thomas, with certain
additions such as concrete
encasements around the main at
various points and pressure
reducing valves.

Thomas said a new cost estimate
should take about 15 days to draft.

Various citizen delegations have
come before the supervisors asking
that the Sharon area be given top
priority in the county’s water and
sewer project program that began
several years ago with voter
approval of a $1 million bond issue.

Several have expressed fears that
the water has caused sickness
among the school children. Health
department tests show the water at
the elementary school to be safe.
There has been general agreement
that the area’s well water is
distasteful and difficult to use
because it is heavily laden with
minerals.

Dobbins, who represents the
Sharon area, said, “I’ve fought for
this system for eight years.”

when Thomas asked for an updated
cost estimate of the project from
the consulting engineer.

Thomas also reported that
Congressman ,M. Caldwell Butler
had agreed to assist the county in
trying to obtain discretionary grant
from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development.

The supervisors approved a
request from Thomas to authorize
the county’s consulting engineer,
Deward Martin, to prepare an
operation and maintenance manuel
for the Low Moor sewage works
project at a cost of $3,000. The
money will come from the
EnvironmentalProtection Agency.

Public hearing

During a public hearing last
night, the supervisors vacated lots
in blocks 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 of
Cliftondale Subdivision to acreage .
The lots, owned by Charles E.
Downey, are located” on Rt. 635 in
the Triangle area of the county.

Last night the board approved the
purchase of a Scout vehicle for the
Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Max
Swoope told the board that the
vehicle is being used to transport
prisoners and “we will need a new
one soon.”

The board authorized the
purchase of the vehicle at $7,470.
With the trade-in of the old Scout,
the total price will be $3,700, with
the county’s share being one-sixth
of the total. The state pays two-
thirds and Covington pays one-sixth.

Other actions

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inspector that 30 permits totaling
$694.60 had been issued during the
month.

^APPROVED the purchase of a
pump for the Pounding Mill water
system.

^LEARNED that consumption of
water in LowMoor is running ahead
of the amount of water consumed in
Selma. Russell Apperson, of the
Water and Sewer Commission,
reported that consumption in
LowMoor is 41,450 gallons per day,
while in Selma it is 39,300 gallons
per day. There are 89 customers in
Low Moor and 208 in Selma.

*ACCEPTED a recommendation
from the Planning Commission to
authorize the construction of six
unit town houses west of Dressier
Estates Subdivision in Intervale.

*APPROVED a recommendation
from the county administrator that
the priorities of the road views be
taken and that funds for the first
priority be allocated to the second
priority.

*TABLED a proposed water
contract with Covington. C.W.
Allison, Jr. Commonwealth’s
Attorney, suggested to the board
that it become a party to a suit
filed in the Newport News area by
the federal government. He
explained that the suit was
contesting a similar problem that
the county was facing here.

^GRANTED a request from the
school board to amend the budget.

^APPROVED three letters from
Mrs. Dorothy Paxton Brown,
treasurer, for appropriation of
funds. They include $33,448.75 from
the Water and Sanitary Fund;
$51,740 from the General Revenue
Fund; and $29,777.50 from the
General Revenue Fund.

^APPROVED two light requests.

^APPROVED a request for
county employees to be off
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,
and the day following Christmas.
And employees will receive their
salary checks on Dec. 22.

*DENIED a claim for crop
damage of Robert L. Wilson.

THE DAILY R f jY lgw CLIFTON FORGE, VA^MQNPAY, NOVEMR P P ] 7 i 975

Representative

to be here on
Tuesday, Nov. 18

Rep.

Sixth District

Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler’s representative
will be in the Clifton
Forge City Hall on .

Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 1-4

P ■ m ■ to meet with citizens ■ I
wishing to discuss
problems they are having j

with the federal

government. The meeting ,
in Clifton Forge is one of
the ten monthly meetings
Rep. Butler holds in the
district.

His representative will
return to Clifton Forge on
the third Tuesday of each
month.

These meetings are in
addition to the regular
Open Door Meetings which \

Rep. Butler holds himself
fr ®*n time to time on a I
non-scheduled basis. j

The Congressman had J
earlier announced the 1
meeting to complement i
the three district offices as .<
past of his plan to have <
the Congressman and the
constituent in close contact.

Any persons wishing to
discuss a particular
problem should bring with
them all papers and
correspondence dealing
with the case, in addition
to knowing their Veterans
Claim and Social Security
numbers.

The World-News Roanoke, Va., Tuesday, November 4, 1975

Va. reaction

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Butler lauds

Rockefeller

By The Associated Press

Sen. William L. Scott, R-Va.,
says Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller’s decision not to run
next year will enhance Presi-
dent Ford’s chances of getting
the GOP presidential nomina-
tion and being elected.

Meanwhile, Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler, R-Va., said he believes
Rockefeller has done “an excel-
lent job” as vice president.

“Rockefeller, especially in
Virginia, is not popular,” Scott
said, adding that “I don’t be-
lieve in view of the circum-
stances in New York, with the
attention that’s being focused on
the difficulties that New York
City is having, that Rockefeller
would be an asset nationally.”

Scott is leaning toward former
California Gov. Ronald Reagan
as his personal choice to get the
nomination next year, he said in
a statement issued by his Wash-
ington office Monday.

Butler, in Roanoke for a
speech Monday night, attributed
Rockefeller’s decision to the dis-
agreement between the vice
president and Ford over what
the federal government should
do to save New York City from
defaulting on billions of dollars
in municipal bonds.

Rockefeller, former New York
governor, favors federal aid to
the financially pressed city,
while Ford has stated he oppos-
es such aid and will veto any
legislation aimed at bailing out

New York City with federal
funds.

Butler also said part of Rocke-
feller’s reason for bowing out
could be the Vice President’s
realization he is a controversial
figure within the GOP and this
was creating an embarrassment
for Ford.

Butler added he does not be-
lieve Rockefeller will challenge
Ford for the nomination at the
GOP convention next summer,
although Butler said he had
heard speculation in Wasington
earlier in the day about such a
challenge.

William Poff, 6th District
GOP chairman, said he believes
Rockefeller was liked in Virgin-
ia, despite views to the contrary
by many conservative Republi-
cans in the state.

Poff said that a recent GOP
fund-raising reception in Roa-
noke grossed about $9,000 with
Rockefeller as the speaker. He
said that was about $1,000 more
than was raised when Ford
came to Roanoke as vice presi-
dent in 1974 for a fund-raisng
reception.

Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., Ind-
Va., would not say much about
the Rockefeller announcement,
but he did deplore Ford’s firing
Sunday of Secretary of Defense
James R. Schlesinger.

Byrd said he was “greatly
concerned that the dismissal of
Secretary Schlesinger means
more emphasis on detente and
more concessions to the Rus-
sians.”

Bedford County

Delegates

Clerk C’wealth’s
Attorney

S R

Sheriff

Comm.
Of Rev.

Treas.

Precinct

Big Island

122

142

197

134

138

149

184

115

Boonsboro

274

160

109

185

334

255

242

234

281

201

102

Bunker Hill

106

104

109

Chamblissburg...

144

-146

149

122

116

Cove

Fancy Grove

Forest

329

131

172

306

248

244

299

301

336

Goode

Hardy

125

128

131

112

135

Kelso

Liberty High

173

200

104

128

223

288

249

253

319

288

266

Lone Gum

104

Moneta

142

114

198

119

143

197

160

105

Montvale

176

127

237

127

172

193

181

138

New London

124

147

156

158

160

163

107

Otter Hill

174

147

180

223

213

253

230

147

126

Patterson Mill....

Sedalia

122

168

153

159

170

128

Shady Grove

Sign Rock

158

107

151

227

165

178

229

225

223

Staunton River..

127

119

184

132

130

149

168

101

Stewartsville

140

107

118

130

142

169

Thaxton

135

131

103

132

147

164

138

Valley Mills

Walker’s Store...

125

104

102

122

Walton’s Store...

109

129

121

124

140

Total

2913

2253

508

1114

1173

2598

3936

3669

3690

769

153

3979

4207

3167

685

1076

Board of Supervisors

District 1 — Carlton L. McKee, 209; William F. Patterson, 177; John H. Sublett, 246 — District 2 — H. L. Cooper, 403;
A. J. Fielder, 143 — District 3 — J. Ray Turner, 237; Aubrey M. Whorley, 468 — District 4 — Scott A. May, 556 —
District 5 — John P. Oliver, 389 — District 6 — J. Alfred Johnson, 206; Hubert A. Roberts , 306 — District 7 — John
Brown, 295; J. Everette Fauber III, 343.

Bedford

City

Senate

Delegates

Clerk

C’wealth’s

Sheriff

Attorney

Jig

Precinct

■ First Ward

412

545

275

342

561

719

590

663

122

689

^ Second Ward

146

371

256

269

234

291

213

240

106

281

Total

558

916

114

531

611

795

1010

803

903

228

970

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Takes Big Lead

ROCKY MOUNT — Incumbent State Sen. Virgil Goode
easily outdistanced challenger Wilbur Doyle in early returns
in the 20th Senatorial District.

Goode swept Henry County with 9,985 to 1,548 and Mar-
tinsville 3,250 to 1,340, and was reported far ahead of the
Martinsville businessman in the counties of Franklin and
Patrick.

Franklin County gave Goode a 2,761 to 293 edge with
seven out of 20 precincts reporting.

Patrick County gave Goode 2,239 votes to 303 for Doyle,
with eight out of 13 precincts reported.

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Re-election

Unopposed

RICHMOND (AP) — The following mem-
bers of the Virginia General Assembly
were elected without opposition Tuesday:
x- Denotes incumbent.

STATE SENATE

1st District— x-Hunter B. Andrews, D.
4th— Elmo G. Cross Jr., D.

9th— x- Lawrence Douglas Wilder, D.
11th— x-Frederick T. Gray, D.

13th— x-Willard J. Moody, D.

14th — x- Russell I. Townsend, D.

15th — x-William V. Rawlings, D.

16th— x-Elmon T. Gray, D.

18th — x-Howard P. Anderson, D.

21st— x-William B. Hopkins, D.

25th— x-J. Harry Michael Jr., D.
28th— x-Paul W. Manns, D.

31st— x-Edward McH. Holland, D.
32nd— x-Clive L. DuVal II, D.

MOUSE OF DELEGATES

2nd District— x-Joseph A. Johnson, D
x-W. L. Lemon, D.

4th— x-A. A. Campbell, D.

12th-x- Richard W. Elliott, D.

13th— x-Garry G. Debruhl, D.; x-A.
Philpott, D.; Claude V. Swanson, D.

17th— x- Raymond R. Guest Jr., R •
Alson H. Smith Jr., D.

23rd— x-lra M. Lechner, D.

25th— x-D. French Slaughter Jr., I.

27th — x -Claude V. Anderson, D.

28th— x-Frank M. Slayton, D.

29th — x-Lewis W. Parker Jr., D.

30th— x-Norman Sisisky, D.

31st— x-Eva F. Scott, I.

32nd— x-V. Earl Dickinson, D.

37th— x-C. Hardaway Marks, D.

39th— x-Evelyn M. Hailey. D.; x-Georc
H. Heilig Jr., D.; x-Joseph A. Leafe, D~
x-Thomas W. Moss Jr., D.; x-William I
Robinson, D.; x-Robert E. Washingtoi
D.; x-J. Warren White Jr., D.

40th— Bernard G. BARROW, D.; x-Glen
B. McClanan, D.; x-Owen B. Pickett, D.

43rd — x-J. Samuel Glasscock, D.

45th — x-L. Ray Ashworth, D.

46th— x-George N. McMath, R.

48th— x- John Warren Cooke, D.

50th— x-Richard M. Bagley, D.; x-Joh
D. Gray, D.

51st — x-george W. Grayson, D.

52nd— x-Robert E. Quinn, D.

Roanoke, Virginia, Wednesday, November 5, 1975

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Election not likely to change Assembly

By OZZIE OSBORNE
Senior Writer

Virginia Democrats made mi-
nor gains in yesterday’s legisla-
tive races— changes that are
highly unlikely to alter the gen-
erally moderate-to-conservative
image of the General Assembly.

Republicans could take some
comfort from their defeat of
two veteran Democratic sena-
tors, George Aldhizer of Rock-
ingham and Leroy S. Bendheim

of Alexandria, but neither was
considered really a shaker or
mover or a key figure in the
State Senate.

And their losses were offset
by Democratic victories so that
the Senate lineup will remain
the same when the General As-
sembly meets Jan. 14; 5 Repub-
licans, 35 Democrats.

The House will have four ad-
ditional Democrats and the line-
up there will be: 78 Democrats,

17 Republicans and 5 indepen-
dents.

Political observers who like to
look for trends probably will be
highly frustrated.

The Democrats came out
slightly better than the Republi-
cans, but it appears that this in-
dicates no real trend since most
of the races turned on personali-
ties, not strictly on party lines.

A theme that ran through
most of the campaigns in every

part of the state was concern for
the state’s currently puny fiscal
condition, with general agree-
ment among Republicans and
Democrats that the 76 General
Assembly will face one of its
severest tests.

Nor does it seem possible to
say whether Gov. Mills E. God-
win Jr. gained anything— or lost.
Certainly, his campaigning
seemed to be a flop since sever-
al candidates he backed in cru-
cial races iost.

Still, he has powerful support
among Democrats in the likes of
Sen. E. E. Willey of Richmond,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, and Del. E. E. Lane,
also of Richmond, chairman of
the House Appropriations Com-
mittee. Both are expected to
back him strongly in his hard
line on holding down state
spending.

Although most of the voting
went pretty well according to

predictions, some of the high-
lights were:

• The election of Del. J. Mar-
shall Coleman, R-Staunton, over
Sen. Frank Nolen, D-Augusta.
The victory is almost certain to
make Coleman a contender for a
spot on the state GOP ticket in
77.

• The election by a huge ma-
jority of Sen. Virgil Goode, D-
Franklin County. Goode’s 5-to-l

See Assembly, Pg. 2, Col. 6

Thomas, Garland
Hold City's Seats

By JOEL TURNER

Times Staff Writer

Sticking with incumbents and the re-
cent tradition of splitting their representa-
tion between the two parties, Roanoke city
voters Tuesday re-elected A. Victor Thom-
as, a Democrat, and Ray L. Garland, a Re-
publican, to the House of Delegates.

The other two men in the race, Demo-
crat Tom Nolan and Republican Michael
Ferguson, trailed far behind and never
posed a serious threat to the two incum-
bents once the results started coming in
Tuesday night.

Thomas led the field, with 9,128 votes,

as he carried 21 of the city’s 30 precincts,
based on unofficial returns. He was elected
to his second term in the House.

Garland, who has been in the House
since 1968, received 8,147 votes, based on
unofficial returns. He carried nine precincts
in winning his fifth term in the House.

Nolan, a young theologian and chair-
man of the City Democratic Committee,
ran third with 5,421. Ferguson, a lawyer,
ran last in the field, with 4,885 votes.

Ferguson sharply attacked Thomas in
the final days of the campaign, accusing

See Page 6, Col. 1

Emick win
v credited

OJ'J ,

to family

By OZZIE OSBORNE
Senior Writer

The State Senate victory of
Dudley J. “Buzz” Emick was
one of those family affairs that
the Roanoke Valley is becoming
noted for in politics.

Emick himself was not availa-
ble for comment today— he and
his wife, Marty, left early this
morning for Puerto Rico and
won’t be back untill Sunday
night.

But those who helped with
the campaign say the work of
the victor’s three brothers and
their wives was a major factor
in Emick doing so well in Roa-
noke County.

And the county showing of
Emick, a 36-year-old Democrat,
killed the re-election chances of
Sen. David F. Thornton.

Emick carried the county—
which is usually considered Re-
publican country— over Thorn-
ton by a vote of 5,258 to 5,148.

The vote in the 22nd Senatori-
al District, with only a few pre-
cincts unreported, was 14,911 for
Emick, 12,997 for Thornton.

“It was a family affair,” said
Steve Emick today, “and we’re
very proud of it.”

He was referring to the work
done in Roanoke County, a key
area in the district in yesterday s
election.

Steve, who’s 34, along with his
brothers, Tim, 29, and Mark, 27,
formed the basis of a cadre of 10
or more regulars who cam-
paigned particularly hard in the
northern part of the'^county,

Dudley J. “Buzz” Emick

where the three Emicks live.
(“Buzz” lives in Fincastle.)

One afternoon, they got to-
gether a group of more than two
dozen to knock on doors.

It may not have been their ef-
fort alone, but in four north
county precincts alone Emick
got 400 more votes than Thorn-
ton.

It wasn’t just the Emick boys
who worked, Steve empasized.
“All the wives were involved,”
he said.

They did those pesky jobs that
candidates usually have a hard
time finding volunteers for: tele-

See Emick, Pg. 4, Col. S

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Youth Changes Va. Senate Image

handles all tax legislation, also was unop-
posed.

From Page 1

borrow $25 million to restore cuts the gov-
ernor had made in the budget.

Thomson was the only member of the
Democratic leadership in the 100-member
House facing any serious opposition. Speak-
er John Warren Cooke and some of the oth-
ers, including strategic committee
chairmen, were unopposed.

The GOP held on to one of its four
Senate seats with the 're-election of Sen. A.
Joe Canada at Virginia Beach. Canada
gained statewide attention for trying to out-
law disposable soft drink bottles and beer
cans in Virginia.

Sen. Virgil Goode Jr. of Rocky Mount,
who was elected two years ago in a special
election at age 27, kept up the youthful
trend running Tuesday by defeating Wilbur
Doyle, 50, a successful Martinsville area
businessman. And in doing so Goode
proved his spectacular majority over five
opponents two years ago was not a political
fluke.

The bid by Mrs. Thelma T. Clore, wife
of a Winchester doctor, to become the first
woman in the Senate was unsuccessful. She
lost to Sen. William A. Truban. a veterinari-
an, who was one of the four Republicans
running for re-election.

Political reporters will not have to go
far to see the chairmen of the Democratic
and Republican parties once the General

Assembly convenes Jan. 14. Both will be at
the Capitol.

Joseph T. Fitzpatrick, the state Demo-
cratic chairman, was elected to the Senate
in Norfolk along with two incumbent Dem-
ocrats running for re-eleetion. State GOP
Chairman George McMath was unopposed
for re-election to the House on the Eastern
Shore.

There was at least one significant
House change. Del. Howard H. Carwile,
Richmond independent, lost his House seat
to former Deputy Atty. Gen. Gerald Baliles.
Carwile, a hero of opponents of school bus-
ing, conceded defeat but in doing so called
Baliles “a pipsqueak bureaucrat from Atty.
Gen. Andrew Miller's office.

Del. A. L. Philpott of Bassett, chairman
of the Democratic caucus, was unopposed.
The caucus, made up of all members of the
House majority, already has begun flexing
an independent political muscle in relations
with Gov. Godwin, and it is expected to be
even more critical of Godwin in the 1976
legislative session.

Three veteran Democrats on the unop-
posed ticket in Richmord will continue to
head important commitees— Del. Edward
E. Lane, appropriations;Del. George Allen,
courts of justice; and Dd. Eleanor P. Shep-
pard, education.

Del. Archie A. Campbell of Wytheville,
chairman of the Finance Committee which

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Del. Orby L. Cantrell of Wise County,
second in seniority in the House, was fa-
vored to win re-election and continue to
head the Committee on Counties, Cities and
Towns. That committee, along with the
Senate Committee on Local Government
headed by Sen. Hopkins of Roanoke, will
. handle the bills coming out of the Stuart
Commission’s study of annexation and con-
solidation.

State Sen. E.E. Willey of Richmond,
president pro tern of the Senate, faced only
token opposition. He has been a member of
the upper chamber since 1952.

Willey is chairman of the Senate Fi-
nance Committee which means that two
Richmond legislators— Willey and Lane-
have more say-so than anyone else on the
makeup and philosophy of state budgeting.

Although they are Democrats, neither
Willey nor Lane is tightly aligned with the
straight-ticket Democrats in the General
Assembly. They will provide Gov. Godwin
with his anchormen in the expected 1976
legislative fight over appropriations.

Both Willey and Lane are fiscal con-
servatives who will stand with Godwin
against any borrowing for maintenance and
operations in the next two years in the face
of inflated costs and a slower-than-usual
growth in state revenues.

’

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Democratic incumbents Dels. Joan
S. Jones of Lynchburg and Donald G.
Pendleton of Amherst Tuesday swept
to victory over their Republican oppo-
nents in their bids for re-election to
the 11th Legislative District seats in
the House.

Their Democratic teammate— El-
liot S. Schewel of Lynchburg— also de-
feated his GOP challenger, Dr. Wil-
liam 0. McCabe Jr. of Forest in the
race for state senator from the 23rd
District.

Complete but unofficial returns
showed Mrs. Jones was the top vote
getter for the Democrats, receiving
13,490 votes to 13,180 for Pendleton.

(See other stories and voting box-
es on Pages 21 and 26.)

Of their challengers, Joseph F.
Freeman of Lynchburg received 5,542
votes in the district and Rex A. Pixley
of Amherst received 4,509 votes.

Schewel received 13,447 votes in
the 23rd senatorial district to 9,410 for
McCabe.

The three Democratic candidates
also rolled to an impressive victory im
Lynchburg.

The 11th Legislative District in-
cludes the city of Lynchburg and the
counties of Amherst and Nelson.

In Lynchburg, Del. Jones again led
the Democratic ticket, with 7,771 votes
to 7,417 for Pendleton. Freeman re-
ceived 3,349 votes in Lynchburg to 2,422
for Pixley.

Sch'ewel, president of Schewel
Furniture Co. and a former member of
City Council, captured 6,884 votes in
Lyncb.burg to McCabe’s 3,958.

In Amherst County, Pendleton was
the top vote getter, receiving 3,800 to
3,546 for Mrs. Jones, and 1,518 each for
Freeman and Pixley.

Schewel received 3,394 votes in
Amherst County to McCabe’s 1,981.

Mrs. Jones led the ticket in Nelson
County, receiving 2,173 votes to 1,963
fo r re wleton, 675 for Freeman and 569
for Pixley. Mrs. Jones will be serving
h er second term in the House of Dele-
gates.

The 23rd senatorial District in-
cludes the cities of Lynchburg and
Bedford and the counties of Bedford
and Amherst.

In Bedford County, McCabe re-
ceived 2,913 votes to 2,253 for Schewel
and in Bedford City Schewel received
916 votes to McCabe’s 558.

Lynchburg Sheriff Lawrence W.
Simpson Jr., running unopposed, re-
ceived 6,124 votes which election of-
ficials said was good public backing.

A total of 10,967 voters went to the
polls in Lynchburg. There were 20,648
registered voters.

Results from the city’s 17 precincts
were called in to the City Electoral
Board members at the Lynchburg
Public Library.

The three Democratic candidates
ran well ahead of their Repbulican
opponents in all city precincts.

A However, the voting was close at
certain precinct levels. Schewel re-

ceived 666 votes to McCabe’s 627 in the
Sixth Precinct of the First Ward (Bed-
ford Hills School).

But the city race was clearly
Schewel’s in the First Precinct of the
Second Ward (First United Methodist
Church) where Schewel received 459
votes to McCabe’s 20. That precinct is
predominantly Negro.

Mrs. John M. Payne, Electoral
Board chairman, said one absentee
ballot was voided in the Sixth Precinct
of the Second Ward (Sheffield School)
because the ballot had been marked
for all of the candidates.

She also said two write-in votes
were recorded in the First Precinct of
the First Ward (Adams Motor Co.) for
Lynchburg attorney Charles M. L.
Mangum and funeral director M. W.
Thornhill Jr. in the senate race. Both
are Negroes.

Mrs. Jones said the Democratic
victory belongs to “hundreds of people
-the volunteers— who worked as hard
as the candidates did.”

She said the victory also reflects
“the honest effort that our candidates
have made to be in touch with people
all across the district and to express
our willingness to devote ourselves to
solutions of the hard problems facing
the Commonwealth.”

“I feel strongly,” Del. Jones said,
“that after the election I represent all
of the people, including those who
didn’t support me, and I am going
back to Richmond to represent all the
people.”

She said it will be a “tremendous

thing to have a Democratic senator to
work with” and expressed disappoint-
ment more people didn’t exercise their
privilege to vote.

Del. Pendleton stressed the im-
portance of “team work, organization
and work” to the Democratic victory
of the three Lynchburg area can-
didates.

“I am, of course, real pleased at
the results,” Pendleton said. “We
made up our minds in June to run as
a team and work together and that is
what we did. That’s what it is all
about.”

Pendleton, who will be returning
to the House for his sixth term, said he
is especially pleased in that he carried
every precinct in the city of
Lynchburg for the first time. “I am
most appreciative to the people of
Lynchburg,” he said.

Pendleton noted, too, that the
Democratic team hopes to carry its
team work on into the General As-
sembly. “I’m sure we’ll differ on sin-
gle issues but basically we can work
together,” he said. “I’m real pleased
the election is over and we can get on
with the job of trying to get something
done in the fields of no-fault insurance
and medical malpractice.”

Schewel called his election “just
great” and said he thinks it was made
possible by “the tremendous help of
literally hundreds of volunteers who
worked on my behalf. I am extremely
grateful, and I think a tremendous

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City of Lynchburg

Senate

Delegates

Sheriff

Precinct B

First Ward

1st Precinct 71

2nd Precinct U4

3rd Precinct 264

4th Precinct 464

5th Precinct 431

6th Precinct 627

Totals 1971

Second Ward

1st Precinct 20

2nd Precinct 381

3rd Precinct 64

4th Precinct 218

5th Precinct 183

6th Precinct 273

7th Precinct 358

Totals 1617

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1st Precinct 27

2nd Precinct 73

3rd Precinct 220

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424

437

550

511

517

666

3105

459

395

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256

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394

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585

203

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running with Joan and Don
who t hemselves are tw a Q Don

standing candidates of proven

cra?ic a rh° a Said that City Dem °-
ninoh Ch ® rman Louise Cun-
ningham did a "fantastic job"
along with Frank Turner in

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drei in Bedford County

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for his two sons, Steve and
Mike, who served as his cam-
paign managers.

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extremely pleased" at the
election results.

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didates,” she said, "and thev
put together a great campaign

w h re :,f e a l0t ° f V0lunt eers
put in a tremendous
number of hours of work.”

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c. Freeman laid the R e -
Publican defeat "to largely a

aTd L° f f "T identification

and the fact that the Re-
publicans did not have the nec-
essary money to begin to over

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about 4 to 3 but we still had
considerable support consider-
ing the odds we had against
us.”

He said he was never able to
overcome the strong name
identity of his opponent—

Schewel, and also noted that
the Democratic party was bet-
ter organized than the Re-
publicans. “The Democrats
also spent more money than
the GOP,” McCabe said.

He added that he is in “no
way bitter but I can see that it
is difficult for a person in a
profession like I am or busy
business persons who have to
work to make a living to get
out and campaign enough to
get sufficient exposure to
win.”

Pixley congratulated the
Democrats on an “excellent
job” and said the election re-
sults show how much the
“GOP has got to do to re-
cuperate from Watergate.”

He said President Ford and
the Republican Party are in
“serious trouble. It’s my per-
sonal feeling the Republicans
have got a lot of work to do
and we need to get started
right now to rebuild the two-
party system.”

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TWO MEN

Tuesday, voters here and ll
state will go to the polls 10 *'®5l
representatives to the Virginia Senate and
the House of Delegates. .

In the 22 nd Senatorial District, we have
three candidates. Incumbent Sen. David F
Thornton, a Republican; former House o
Delegates member Dudley J. B .^ z .
Emick, Jr., a Democrat; and write-in

candidate Norman Douglas.

For the House of Delegates from the 10th
District we have Del. William J-
Democratic incumbent, and challenger,

Charles F. Walker, Republican.

We would recommend the voters return
Sen. Thornton to Richmond to continue his
representation of this District, which he
has served since 1970.

Since he first went to Richmond,
Thornton has advocated changes m the
state and pushed for their adoption. He
advocated adoption of an agriculture
district program; proposed amending t
conflict of interest laws; suggested a plan
to head off a crisis in medical malpractice
insurance programs; opposed gun contro
legislation; affirmed his stand for genera
revenue bond issues as the most effective
means of combating a sluggi ish
and supported sales tax relief for elderly

Ci O„ en the other hand, Emick while serving
as a member of the House of Delegate ,
seemed to completely duck issues on the
floor and was once quoted in the Roan
Times as saying you 11 be sma
politically if you never say anything about

it” on one issue. . .

And then he gave up his seat in the

House of Delegates.

For the House of Delegates seat, we
would recommend Charlie Walker as the
man who can represent us best in

As an administrator at Alleghany County
High School, Walker has had a chance to
become involved in a ‘‘peop e-to-people
approach to government. Daily he deals
with the problems facing each of us.

We have to agree with Walker when he
expresses a concern for the pseudo-
achievements of the incumbent. Credit for
such items as Gathright Dam, Interstate
64, Idlewilde Bridge and the Rt. 220 bridge
in Botetourt County should be given to the
people who have done the work to develop

th ls P 1n C educator, Walker will take a
different view of legislation for deficit

SP Walker admits that he is a neophyte m
politics and totally inexperienced But he
will be able to look at proposed legislation
with the average man in mind.

We would recommend both of these men
as the men to represent us in Richmond.

Paid Political Advertisement

I Hope You’ll Vote For Charlie Walker

M. CALDWELL BUTLER
CONGRESSMAN

I’m pleased to endorse my friend Charlie Walker for
the House of Delegates.

As a former member of the House myself, I can
assure you that Charlie Walker’s intimate knowledge
of public education in Virginia is badly needed in
Richmond.

As a family man, school administrator, long time
resident of the area, Charlie is vitally and personally
involved with the problems of the General Assembly
which concern every family in this district.

HELP ELECT CHARLIE WALKER NOV. 4

By authority of Sara C. Bodell, iuly designated treasurer of Charles Walker

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Thomas, Garland Win
Roanoke's House Seats

A. VICTOR THOMAS

The fact that citizens of
Roanoke are becoming less
party-conscious -and tend to
be voting more for the men
became more apparent as
one Democrat and one Re-
publican incumbent were re-
turned to the House of Del-
egates in Tuesday’s election.

Both incumbents won eas-
ily os voters turned out in
a better than expected show-
ing. A “Vic” Thomas led the
field with Ray Garland trail-
ing by nearly 1000 votes.

The challenge of the two
new-comers, Tom Nolan and
Michael Ferguson was never
a serious threat to the in-
cumbents, n o t w it hstanding
the fair and open campaign
conducted by both men. Tom
Nolan ran well with over
5000 votes while Mike Fer-
guson trailed the field.

Vic Thomas will return to
Richmond for a second term
while Garland has been in
the House since 1968 repre-
senting the 7th District.

Results of other elections
throughout the state went as
follows:

STATE SENATE

22nd— Roanoke County-Covington

Dudley J. (Buzz) Emick Jr.-D

24th— Staunton-Lexington
J. Marshall Coleman-R

37 th— Montgomery-Carroll
Madison E. Marye-D

20th— Franklin-Martinsville
Virgil H. Goode Jr.-D

RAY L. GARLAND

38th — Pulaski-Wvthe-Craig
Daniel W. Bird Jr.-D

HOUSE OF DELEGATES

7th— Roanoke City
A. Victor Thomas-D
Ray L. Garland-R

J^iiT^ em *Hoanoke County —
Raymond R. Robrecht-R
C. Richard Cranwell-D

6th — Carroll-Montgomery
Jerry H. Geisler-R
W. Ward Teel-R

9th— Franklin-Lexington
Charles W. Gunn Jr.-I
Lacey E. Putney-I

5th— Giles-Pulaski
C. Jefferson Stafford-R

10th — Alleghany-Botetourt

William T. Wilson-D

15th— Augusta-Bath
Erwin S. Solomon-D
A. R. Giesen Jr.-R

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November 18 r W5

Differ on Judgeship

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Scott

By DON HILL

Times Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - As Republican Sen.
William L. Scott was throwing his support
Monday to Glen M. Williams of JonesviUe,
Va., tcfbe a federal judge for the Western
District of Virginia, a leading legal organi-
Xn endorsed William B. Poff of Roa-
noke for the post.

At the same time, Rep. M. CaldweU

Butler, a Roanoke Republican said he is
sticking to his own recommendation that
Poff be named to replace Judge Te
ton. Dalton has asked to be placed on sen-
’ ior status, or semiretirement. Butler said he

remains hopeful that Poff will get the
White House nomination.

In letters sent Monday to President
Ford and Atty. Gen. Edward Levi, Scott
said Williams “possesses the professional
qualifications and judicial temperament to
serve with distinction on the federal
bench.’*

After Scott announced his choice, the
1 800-member Virginia Trial Lawyers Asso-
ciation issued a statement saying that it had
sent the state’s 10 representatives and two
senators a telegram endorsing Pof f»

See Page 5, Col. 2

“My recommendation for the
nomination has been forwarded
to the White House and to Sen.
Scott and to the Justice Depart-
ment, which is appropriate un-
der the circumstances.

“The ultimate recommenda-
tion of the Justice Department
and of the American Bar Asso-
ciation will be considered by the
White House and the nomina-
tion will be made.

“I am hopeful that William
Poff will get it because he is as
deserving and qualified for this
judgeship as any judicial nomi-
nee for a federal judgeship in
my experience.

“I am personally fond of Glen
Williams but my choice is dictat-
ed by the fact that three of the
three federal judges in the West-
ern District come from the 9 th
Congressional District.”

Roanoke, Poff’s home, is in
the 6 th Congressional District,
which Butler represents.

as?

orsed
or Va. Judgeship

From Page 1

The telegram said, “We en-
dorse (Poff) without qualifica-
tion as a person of the highest
ability and highest integrity,”
Asked if the association knew
that Scott had already recom-
mended Williams, a spokesman
for the trial lawyers said, “Yes,
we knew that. But we don’t al-
ways agree with the senator.”
Customarily, the recommen-
dation of a senator of the same
party as the president is given
great weight in judicial appoint-
ments to district courts. Also,
Scott is a member of the Senate

Judiciary Committee, which
soon will be considering Presi-
dent Ford’s nomination for a
successor to Supreme Court Jus-
tice William 0. Douglas. The
same committee will have to
approve Ford’s nomination to
replace Dalton.

In the past, Scott has run into
difficulties with some of his rec-
ommendations for federal ap-
pointments.

Butler said Monday:

“My choice is William B. Poff,
which I suspect is the choice of
the overwhelming number of
lawyers in the Western District.

“My recommendation for the
nomination has been forwarded
to the White House and to Sen.
Scott and to the Justice Depart-
ment, which is appropriate un-
der the circumstances.

“The ultimate recommenda-
tion of the Justice Department
and of the American Bar Asso-
ciation will be considered by the
White House and the nomina-
tion will be made.

“I am hopeful that William
Poff will get it because he is as
deserving and qualified for this
judgeship as any judicial nomi-
nee for a federal judgeship in
my experience.

“I am personally fond of Glen
Williams but my choice is dictat-
ed by the fact that three of the
three federal judges in the West-
ern District come from the 9th
Congressional District.”

Roanoke, Poff’s home, is in
the 6th Congressional District,
which Butler represents.

;'V

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Mon., Nov. 17, 1975

309

^Highway Commission
Okays Transit Funds

: Some of the operating defi-
cit of the Greater Lynchburg
Transit Co. for fiscal 1974-75
will be defrayed through an
allocation of $128,000 by the
State Highway Commission.

The money will be reim-
bursed to the commission by
the Urban Mass Transportation
Administration under the Ur-
ban Mass Transportation As-
sistance Act.

j r Lynchburg was first notified
that it would receive the feder-
al funds by Sixth District Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler in August.

: Butler said at that time the
1 xity had been awarded a feder-
; al operating grant of $128,000.

Those UMTA operating
’ funds must be cleared in Vir-
ginia by the State Highway
.Commission, however, and a
Resolution for appropriation of
the $128,000 was made at a com-
imission meeting this week by
rThomas R. Glass, the
^Lynchburg district member.

J The resolution said the
.■Greater Lynchburg Transit Co.
•application had been approved
i-by Wayne A. Whitham, secre-
tary of transportation, and Vir-
ginia Highway Commissioner
pouglas B. Fugate.

I Those two were delegated
the responsibility by the gov-
ernor of administering appor-
tioned UMTA funds to urban-
ized areas in the state with
'populations between 50,000 and
1200,000.

.* The city’s application for
3the $128,000 was filed in April
W ith UMTA even though the
^Central Virginia Transporta-
tion Planning Council had re-
scinded its previous approval
3)f the grant request.

% Later the council changed
dts mind again and gave its
^approval to the city’s request.

£ The council still has not ap-
proved the GLTC five-year cap-
ital plan, however, and that
jcould affect the city’s efforts to
Jget federal funds in the future.

% Richard Jacques, assistant

to City Manger David B. Nor-
man, said at the time of the
Butler announcement that de-
tails of the contract governing
use of the $128,000 still had to
be worked out by the city,
UMTA and the State Highway
Department.

Deputy City Manager Rich-
ard A. Berry, who is also presi-
dent of the transit company,
and Sam Smith, GLTC general
manager, said then that as a
condition of the contract the
transit co. would have to put
into effect half fares for per-
sons 65 years of age and older
and handicapped persons.

That was done in late sum-
mer, clearing the way for the
action by the State Highway
Commission.

The city of Lynchburg and
the Greater Lynchburg Transit
Co. hope to receive $214,000 in
operating funds from UMTA
for the present fiscal year of
1975-76 but so far the Central
Virginia Transportation Plan-
ning Council has failed to ap-
prove a controversial five-year
regional transit development
program.

Smith also has said that fail-
ure to have an annual update
of the five-year transit develop-
ment program on file with
UMTA could affect part or all
of the $1.7 million in federal
funds the bus company expects
to receive through 1980.

f“ i

THE FINCASTLE HERALD
Fincastle, Virginia

NOVEMBER 13, 1975

HUD Sewer Grant Is Approved

A federal grant of $134,000 to Botetourt and
Craig Counties for sewer projects has been allocated
by the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, Sixth District Congressman M„ Caldwell Butler
told The Herald this week.

Botetourt County Administrator James Beavers
explained that the grant will be divided as follows:
planning and development, $9,500; reconstruction
of an existing sewer system in New Castle in Craig
County, $21,600; construction of a new Tinker Creek
interceptor wastewatet collector system in Botetourt
County, $100,000; administrative costs, $1,800- and
contingencies and local options, $1,100.

t 7 mnnn rS i, said , that tw0 additional grants totaling
$700,000 have been earmarked for the $2.7 million

Tinker Creek project. The HUD grant announced this
week will be applied as the county's share of the
project.

The HUD grant was awarded under community
development block funding.

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Butler Aide to be in Bath and Highland

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Sixth sentative at the Bath County
District Congressman M. Cald- courthouse and at the High-
well Butler will have a repre- land County courthouse on Wed -

nesday, Nov. 19 to meet with citi-
zens who might have problems
they wish to discuss.

The aide will be in Bath County
from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. and
in Highland from 2:30 p.m. un-
til 4:30 p.m.

The Bedford Bulletin-Democrat, November 13, 1975

Oklahomans Take Lead in

Fight on Engineers' Plans

The Smith Mountain Lake
Association’s delegation
which went to Washington
Tuesday of last week for a
meeting with other groups
opposing the Army Corps of
Engineers’ permits program
returned with the word that
“there will be a national
organization” to fight the
engineers’ plans for control of
waters they declare to be
“navigable.”

It developed that the hottest
area of opposition to the
engineers’ take-over appears
to be Oklahoma, which sent a
delegation of about 45 to the
meeting of Tuesday night,
Nov. 4, in a motel in downtown
Washington. They were joined
by four protesters from Texas,
including two from the Lake
Whitney area, and the
Virginia delegation of four,
August Meidling of Lyn-
chburg, Thomas A. Watts, III,
and James R. Murphy from
the Bedford County side of
Smith Mountain Lake and
Richard Dill of Pittsylvania
County.

Congressmen Attend
At the meeting were two or
three Congressmen from
Oklahoma, and Rep. Theodore
M. Risenhoover of the
Oklahoma Second District
was called on to direct the
discussion. He took the names
of those present and arranged
to set up liaison among groups
interested in opposing the
engineers’ plans. The Virginia
delegation returned home
Wednesday, first but that
morning visited the offices of
? Reps. M. Caldwell Butler,
Republican, Sixth Virginia
District, and W. C. (Dan)
j Daniel, Democrat, Fifth
District, to make sure they
would be present or
represented in further
meetings during the week.

also later in the week.

Mr. Murphy of the Smith
Mountain Lake group, said
Tuesday’s discussion brought
out the information that the
engineers’ plans had caused
problems in 41 states, but
apparently the Corps had not
been bearing down as hard
elsewhere as in Oklahoma,
Texas and the Smith Mountain
area.

The Key Man

Further progress in the
effort to form a national
organization apparently lies in
the hands of Rep.
Risenhoover. His home is in
Tahlequah in northeastern
Oklahoma, a region with
many lakes and rivers. His
district embraces more than a
dozen counties. He is a
member of several House of
Representatives committees,
including Interior and Water
and Power Resources. He is a
Democrat.

He has already introduced
House bill 8931 designed to
curb the Corp of Engineers’
powers over “navigable”
waters.

Many of the Oklahoma
delegation were staying on for
two or three more days to
make sure the engineers got
the message. The Corps of
Engineers was not
represented at the Tuesday
night meeting. However, the
protesters had assurance the
Corps would send high
ranking officers to another
meeting probably Thursday
night.

At The Capitol
All the delegations,
Oklahoma, Texas and
Virginia, spent some time
Wednesday in the Capitol and
the Senate and House office
buildings, talking with
congressmen or their aides. A
conference with the Speaker
of the House, Rep. Carl Albert
of Oklahoma, was arranged
for later in the week, and the
Corps of Engineers promised
to send representatives to a
meeting with the Oklahomans

MEETING ANNOUNCED
U.S. Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler’s representative will be

I in the Highland County
Courthouse in Monterey on
Wednesday from 2 : 304 : 30 p.m.
to meet with residents wishing
to discuss problems they are
having with the federal
government.

JI.3 '

Buena Vista News,

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Thursday, November 13, 1975 Page 11

Butler
Aide To
Visit

6th District Congressman
M. Caldwell Butler’s
representative will be in the
Buena Vista City Hall on
Tuesday, Nov. 18 from 9 a.m.
until 10:30 a.m. to meet with
citizens wishing to discuss
problems they are having
with the federal government.

The meeting in Buena Vista
is one of the ten monthly
meetings Rep. Butler holds
in the district.

The ; congressman’s
representative will also stop
in Lexington Tuesday.

Persons may meet him at
the Lexington City Hall from
11 a.m. until 12:15 p.m.

His representative will
return to the area on the
third Tuesday of each
month.

These meetings are in
addition to the regular Open
Door Meetings which Rep.

Butler holds himself from
time to time on a non-
scheduled basis.

The congressman had
earlier announced the
meeting to complement the
three district offices as part
of his plan to have the
Congressman and the
constituent in close contact.

Any persons wishing to
discuss a particular problem
with Rep. Butler’s
representative should bring
with them all papers and
correspondence dealing with
the case, in addition to
knowing their Veterans
Claim and Social Security
numbers.

Staunton, Va., Leader, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1975 3

MEETING SET
A representative from the
office of 6th District U.S. Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler will be in
Council Chambers of City Hall
Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon
to discuss problems with area
residents.

Ben Beagle

Fortunately for America
Pioneers Not Handcuffed

Sixth District Rep. M. Caldwell Butler has sent out a
newsletter to the voters in which he writes at some length
about the way government regulates people, places, indus-’
tries and toys.

The congressman is too serious-minded a gentleman to
lapse into fantasy about such things as government regula-
tion, but I feel that there are no restraints on me.

Thus, with apologies to Rep. Butler— who, for all his
success in high office, is still one of the best one-liners I
.know of— I now lapse into some fantasy about what might
laave happened 200 years ago had the government bureaucra-
cy attained the dreadful success it now has achieved.

It appears to me that members of the Boston Tea Party
might have been among the most prominent of individuals to
come under the scrutiny of the government.

No Permit, No Dumping

For it is a certainty that had the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency (EPA) been in action at that colorful time in
American history, the people who dressed themselves as In-
dians would have had paperwork difficulties.

. They would, surely, have had to file an environmental
impact statement, showing that tea would do nothing to low-
er the quality of the water in the bay.

By the time this statement— the EPA likes to call such a
statement an EIS— had been processed and brainstormed at
the regional headquarters, the Revolutionary War would
have been over and all of those patriots would have felt silly
wearing those Indian costumes all that time.

In about 1804, the EPA would have decided that no
harm would have been done by dumping the tea provided
that certain measures, costing about $400,000, were taken
beforehand.

Paul Revere, who well may have been already under
investigation by certain consumer agencies within the gov-
ernment, would have found himself in some difficulty with
the EPA also.

Yell Quietly, Please

Everyone knows that Paul Revere was an impetuous
gentleman and he would hardly have thought to contact the
EPA about an exception to a noise-pollution ordinance that
Boston would have had.

Thus, Revere would have mounted up when he saw the
lights in the Old North Church and galloped through the
streets screaming, his horse’s hooves making a great deal of
noise, and he would have received a citation from the region-
al office and perhaps even a fine.

I have the impression that under such circumstances,
Revere might well have told the EPA where it could go and
joined the British army.

The Department of Justice no doubt would have become
exercised because there were no female signers of the Decla-
ration of Independence and the Department of Health, Edu-
cation and Welfare might well have had investigators all over
the camp at Valley Forge. It is quite possible they might
have shut down the entire camp as well as the Revolutionary
War itself.

And had there been a Social Security trust fund at the
time, it is inevitable Congress would have raided it to pay the
soldiers

Virginians oppose consumer unit

WASHINGTON (API - Here is the way representatives from
Virginia voted Thursday as the House voted 208 to 199 to create the
Agency for Consumer Protection:

Democrats — Dan Daniel no; Downing no; Fisher yes; Harris

yes; Satterfield no. . , _ . .

Republicans — Butler no; R. W. Daniel no; Robinson no;

Wampler no; Whitehurst no.

>■■■— DAILY ADVANCE, Lynchburg, Va., Fri., Nov. 7, 1975

Bath Gets Grant

For Recreation

WARM SPRINGS - The Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Deve-
lopment, HUD, has announced that
Bath County will be awarded a
community development block
grant in the amount of $425,000
for a neighborhood recreation
facility to be developed within
the county.

The announcement was made
yesterday (Wednesday) through
the office of Representative M.
Caldwell Butler. More informa-
tion concerning the grant will
be available at a later time.

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AP Photo

Democrat Cliff Finch Leaves Poll

Finch Leads
In Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democrat Cliff Finch inched past
Republican Gil Carmichael in the Mississippi governor's race Tues-
day night and Democratic Insurance Commissioner Evelyn Gandy
became the first woman to win election as lieutenant governor.

Finch, a Batesville lawyer who won a record victory in the
Democratic primary, fell behind as the first urben counties began
reporting. But he moved in front before midnight as more rural
votes came in.

Carmichael, a Meridian businessman seeking to become the
first GOP governor of this Deep South state since Reconstruction,
had almost 52 per cent of the vote before Finch began his premid-
night surge. J

Miss Gandy, the state insurance commissioner who defeated
five men for the Democratic nomination, beat Republican Bill Pat-
rick of Laurel impressively.

The close gubernatorial race raised the possibility that the elec-
tion might go to the Mississippi House of Representatives if the
winner isn’t able to gain a majority in the three-way contest that
also includes black independent Henry Jay Kirksey of Jackson, who
ran a token campaign. His vote could prevent the winner from get-
ting a majority.

With 1,032 of the 2,133 precincts reporting, Finch had 156,248
votes to 149,085 for Carmichael and 9,273 for Kirksey. Finch’s per-
centage was 49.6 per cent of the total.

With 1,020 precincts reporting in the lieutenant governor’s race,
Miss Gandy had 202,298 and Patrick 91,79 .

Election officials reported brisk voting despite heavy rain, and
some of the heaviest voting periods came during downpours.

Ten other state and state-district races are on the long ballot,
which also includes 53 legislative contests, three constitutional
amendments and hundreds of county posts across the state.

Rizzo Returned

In Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The high school dropout who
Democrat Frank Rizzo, the one- rose from beat patrolman to city
time rowhouse cop who sup- police commissioner to mayor
ported Republican Richard with outspofen gusto, kept a low
Nixon for president in 1972, was profile even before his accident,
re-elected mayor of Philadelphia His strength appeared to lie in
Tuesday. the advantages of incumbency

Rizzo overcame challenges and an overflowing war chest,
from Thomas Foglietta, a Re-
publican, and black independent

Charles Bowser to extend Dem- j n 197 2 ? Rizzo not only
ocratic control of the nation s s t e pp e d on party toes by backing
fourth largest city. Democrats, j\jj xon< but deepened the wound
who outnumber Republicans b calling him - the greatest

president America ever had,” a
of Philadelphia since 1952. statement he declined to retract
With 40 per cent of the city’s publicly either during or after
precincts reporting, Rizzo had the Watergate scandals.

127,260 votes to 35,204 for Fog-
lietta and 48,785 for Bowser.

Foglietta gave up his 20-year
seat on the City Council to run.

Bowser, meanwhile, sat out the
primary after failing to get a
Democratic party endorsement.

Rizzo, 55, spent the waning
weeks of the campaign in bed,
recuperating from a broken hip
suffered in a fall at a refinery
fire Oct. 12.

As in 1971, Rizzo campaigned
on a law-and-order platform,
claiming Philadelphia has the
lowest violent crime rate of the .
nation’s top 10 cities. He also
said he had not raised taxes dur-

THE ROANOKE TIMES, Wednesday, Hovember S. J975

Minority Leader
Returns to House

Times New River Bureau

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i 0 ,h CHR t STIA , NSBL ' r G - House Minority
Del w J S Iy i 1 . Geisler - R-HiUsville apd
n,rL k ^ r u J eel - R -Christiansburg
E r b 5 ' k challenges Tuesday from their

w,n rMlM “ “

!nrH ad h°I d T C °! lege P rofessor - carried Rad-
lord. but Teel and Geisler carried Mont-
gomery and Floyd counties.

k ¥ l n JP arro ^ ^ ount y« Cooley finished
about 90 yotes ahead of Teel but about 400
votes behind Geisler.

Political newcomer Mullis put in a rel-
atively strong showing, however, with 9.945

Boo,ey ' who ran against Teel and
Geisler two years ago, trailed with 9,283.

As expected, Geisler ran ahead of Te»i

Teel led 0 the e fLd art while

Montgomery. W h ' S home county of

Mullis did well in Radford hi«

PnnT’ Wi r- h • 1, I 510 votes • about 450 more than
Cooley. Geisler and Teel finished in Rad

ford with 832 and 794 votes respective^
But the two Republicans whn«>

tte l y e cSlSTmtoi

partnership headed by Teel. * 6S

Montgomery County, the larees

lsVf m' Ct ’ Teei garnered 5 .223 votes, v
18 of 19 precincts reporting, closeiv

4°590 d m b ^ GeiSler With 5139 ' Mullis rewi'
4^590 in the county, while his running m
Cooley garnered 3,931. e

ti ..jy any ^teis in the district split th

honf 1 ^ 1 " the leglslative races; as incu
bent Democratic State Sen. Madison
Marye easily outpaced Republican ch.

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Demoaatictemlo^ 3 "" 01 * WDSideK

Pumping
For Votes

Times Photo by John Cook
Mrs. May Johnson shows the enthusiasm
typical of many candidates Tuesday as she
pumps ;he hands of voters at the Odgen
Precinct in Roanoke County. Mrs. Johnson,
a candidate for the county board of super-
visors, and other politicians were aided by
good weather and the county precincts had
a good turnout.

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Robrecht Also Wins

Cranwell Leads
Assembly Ticket

-. . -- . - — --

Dels. Richard Cranwell, a Democrat,
and Raymond Robrecht, a Republican
were easily re-elected to the two House of
Delegates seats for Roanoke County and
Salem in Tuesday’s election.

Cranwell, a lawyer, led the three-way
race for the two seats, polling 13,339 votes.
Robrecht, who is also a lawyer, ran second,
with 11,585 votes.

Donald Williams, a lawyer who was
Cranwell’s Democratic running-mate, ran
last m the field, with 9,034 votes, based on
unofficial returns. Robrecht was the only
GOP candidate for the seats.

xl • Cranwel > an d Robrecht were elected to
their third terms in the House.

Cranwell led the field in both the coun-
ty and Salem, although his margin in Salem
was smaller.

With all precincts in the county report-
ing, Cranwell had 10,797 votes. Robrecht
F a fl,. second in the county with 9,291. And
Williams ran a distant third, with 6,836.

In Salem, it was a closer race. Cranwell
8* 2-542 votes, based on unofficial returns
with all precincts reporting. Robrecht re-
cel . v ^ 2,294 and Williams ran close behind

Wllfl Z,lt 70 .

Cranwell scored heavily in the Vinton
and east, north and southwest sections of
tne county.

Times

Staff

Writer

Robrecht, a former commonwealth’s
attorney m the county, ran well in the big
precincts in the southwest section.

The three-way race for the two seats
dimi t generate any controversy. Robreeht
and Cranwell took similar stands on most
issues and Williams tried to persuade the
voters that he could do a better job of rep-
resenting them in Richmond.

nt i.P r .I! We ^’ ^ as ttle hold in each

Jop'hf t ? ree races for the House - And Ro-
brecht has run second each time. In the

5 "? P n °r races, there was a four-way con-
test for the two seats for Salem and the
county.

Williams was making his first try for
public office in the Roanoke Valley, al-
though he had held elective office in anoth-
er state.

Assembly Winners

STATE SENATE

22nd— Roanoke County-Covington
Dudley J. (Buzz) Emick Jr.-D

24th Staunton-Lexington
J. Marshall Coleman-R

37th— Montgomery-CarroII
Madison E. Marye-D

20th— Franklin-Martinsville

Virgil H. Goode Jr.-D

38th— Pulaski-Wythe-Craig
Daniel W. Bird Jr.-D

HOUSE OF DELEGATES

7th— Roanoke City
A. Victor Thomas-D
Ray L. Garland-R

8th— Salem-Roanoke County
Raymond R. Robrecht-R
C. Richard Cranwell-D

6th— Carroll-Montgomery
Jerry H. Geisler-R
W. Ward Teel-R

9th— Franklin-Lexington
Charles W. Gunn Jr. -I
Lacey E. Putney-I

5th— Giles-Pulaski
C. Jefferson Stafford-R

10th— Alleghany-Botetourt
William T. Wilson-D

15th— Augusta-Bath
Erwin S. Solomon-D
A. R. Giesen Jr.-R

KVfS,

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County and Salem Vote
In 8th House Election

8th District House— Roanoke County

Robrecht

Cranwell

Williams

(R)

(D)

Catawba

107

Mason Valley

141

177

112

Glenvar

315

287

225

Brushy Mountain

180

242

' 166

Peters Creek

407

466

306

Botetourt Springs

372

415

233

Green Hill

106

126

Medley A

283

358

244

Medley B

233

324

242

Burlington A

399

513

288

Burlington B

367

423

235

Monterey

373

340

197

Edgewood

241

319

240

Windsor Hills 1A

329

267

163

Windsor Hills IB

272

230

153

Windsor Hills 2A

415

444

294

Windsor Hills 2B

359

352

184

Oak Grove A

460

455

313

Oak Grove B

465

429

265

Hollins Road

122

Bonsack

154

260

190

West Vinton

234

540

347

East Vinton

301

637

410

Lindenwood

323

502

337

Mount Pleasant

277

401

235

Bent Mountain

78 \

Poages Mill v

304

294

185

Cave Spring

649

615

381

Ogden A

357

372

208

Ogden B

258

283

183

Clearbrook

365

320

205

Absentee Ballots

101

Total

9,291

10,797

6,836

House of Delegates-

-Salem

Robrecht

Cranwell

Williams

(R)

(D)

North Salem 1

270

308

263

North Salem 2

456

387

332

South Salem 1

217

234

205

South Salem 2

203

277

243

East Salem

111

177

135

West Salem

298

318

276

Conehurst

123

148

126

Beverly Heights

202

222

171

Hidden Valley

277

282

285

Southside Hills

107

160

138

Absentee Ballots

Total

2,294

2,542

2,198

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Stafford

Re-Elected

Del. C. Jefferson Stafford. R-
Pearisburg, apparently won re-
election to the House of Dele-
gates over Democrat Harry H.
Foglesongin unofficial returns
Tuesday night.

Stafford carried his own Giles
County by a decisive 4.083-2,232.
while Foglesong edged out a
win in his Pulaski County 3.-
986-3.354. The remaining 5th Dis-
trict county^ Craig, still had one
of its nine precincts out late
Tuesday night, but Foglesong’s
slim 477-456 lead there seemed
not quite enough to change the
outcome.

Stafford, a Pearisburg lawyer,
has held the seat since running
successfully against veteran
Democrat Garnett Moore of Pu-
laski. Foglesong is director of
instruction for Pulaski County
schools.

Wilson
Winner
In 10th

Incumbent Del. William T.
(Bill) Wilson, a Covington law-
yer and a Democrat, turned
back a challenge from Republi-
can Charles Walker for the 10th
District House seat by a margin
of 985 votes Tuesday.

But Wilson had to rely on
margins of 572 votes in Bote-
tourt, 528 in Covington and 147
in Clifton Forge for his victory
because Walker trailed bv only
eight votes in Alleghanf County
where both live. The Alleghany
vote went to Wilson by 1,349 to
1,341.

The unofficial returns for the
Covington-Clifton Forge-Bote-
tourt- Alleghany House race gave
Wilson 5,945 to Walker s 4.960
votes.

Wilson first won election to
the House of Delegates two
years ago while Walker, assis-
tant principal of Alleghanly
County High School, was trying
for his first public office.

Now 38 and a bachelor, Wil-
son is a native of Crewe who
moved to Covington to practice
law with the late State Sen. Hale
Collins after he was graduated
from the University of Virginia
in 1963. He’s also a graduate of
Hampden-Sydney College.

Walker, who is 40. was chair-
man of a committee which
helped win approval of a $2.5
million bond issue for water and
sewage treatment facilities in
Alleghany County.

A basketball coach for nine
years and a veteran of 15 years
in the county schools, he's a
graduate of Concord College and
he holds a master’s degree from
West Virginia University.

Two years ago, Wilson defeat-
ed Republican Harold Wingate
by more than 2,000 votes.

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Veteran Legislators

Win in 9th District

Bv GAIL DUDLEY

Times Staff Writer

Two veteran legislators,Lacey
Putney of Bedford and Charles
W. “Bunny” Gunn Jr. of Lexing-
ton, beat three opponents in the
9th House District Tuesday and
won re-election to the House of
Delegates.

With only six precincts left to
report in Bedford, Franklin and
Rockbridge counties and
cities of Lexington. Buena Vista
and Bedford. Putney led the
race with 11,546 votes, followed
by Gunn with 11,099.

Both men ran as indepen-

Trailing the two incumbents
were Alice C. Rabe, who chairs
the Lexington School Board,
with 5,522 votes; Shuler A. Kiz-
er mayor of Buena Vista, with
'5 218 votes; and William A.
Whitlock, a Rockbridge County
livestock producer, with 1,790
votes.

The incumbents carried all
the counties and cities, including
Kizer’s hometown.

As expected, Putney ran
strong in his home Bedford
County and the city, while Gunn
made his best showing in Rock-
bridge County and Lexington.

Both legislators are in their
second decade of House mem-
bership. Putney has served sev-
en previous terms and Gunn nas
completed six.

Gunn, 53, is a Tallahassee,
Fla., native.

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Sisler

Upset

Times Shenandoah Bureau

LEXINGTON — Two incum-
bents lost their seats Tuesday in
local races in Rockbridge Coun-
ty and Lexington.

Beverly C. Read upset incum-
bent Commonwealth’s Atty.
Eric Lee Sisler, who was seek-
ing his second term as prosecu-
tor for Lexington and
Rockbridge County. Sisler, an
independent, received 1,143
votes in the county and 589
votes in Lexington, according to
unofficial figures. Read captured
the prosecutor’s office with L-
753 votes in the county and 809
votes in Lexington.

Emick Unseats
Sen. Thornton

and the clerk’s office and re-elect Republi- vjncin g margin of 3.178 to 1,996. While Em-

can Del. Raymond Robrecht for another jck was doing it Mrs. Rebecca Hancock

Thornton in the same election that saw it
return Republicans to the sheriff’s office

Dudley J. Emick Jr.

term in the House.

Hanslin, a Republican, was winning a race
See Page 6, Col. 3

He also took Botetourt County, his
home county, from Thornton by the con-

Emick Defeats Incumbent Thornton

Q 1 1 1 f rtf * on aKim aii /1 j i _ ii

for Eotetoiirt Commonwealth s attorney

[IS office 3 2 °' year Democratic sta y ^

ni 0 hr° litician l, taIking about il Tuesday
night were unable to explain what had hap-
pened m Roanoke County— where Thorn-

uV n A 19 M ! race a E ainst Democrat Tom
riuitord, built up a huge margin.

It was Roanoke County, in 1967. that
put a Republican in the State Senate from
the district— H. Clyde Pearson, now a fed-
era bankruptcy judge. Thornton had
weathered two races in the district, one in
special election for Pearson’s unexpired
»enn when Pearson went with the federal
Judiciary and again in 1971 for a full term.

Thornton managed to carry his home-
town of Salem, where he is vice president-
development for Roanoke College, by less
than 300 votes.

In a concession statement Tuesday
night the 50-year-old Thornton said, “1 cer-
tainly congratulate ‘Buzz’ on the well-fi-
nanced. well-organized and aggressive
campaign, and the fact that he could actual-
ly win in Roanoke County is a tribute not
only to his organization but to him ...”

Thornton -said perhaps his loss is the

result of an obvious trend locally now for
some new faces.”

T have no regrets,” Thornton said.

ran the best campaign I knew how to run I
served for fi/e years ... and I think I did
some good for the commonwealth."

Thornton said he will “certainly be
looking forward to some good service from
my opponent" and he said he will “support
him and all his colleagues. "

Emick, who grew up in the City of
Roanoke, said he was “just delighted with
the effort of my brothers and a lot of other
people who went way beyond the extra
mile.

Emick said he believes their efforts
made a substantial difference in Roanoke
County. He said his brothers, Tim, Mark
and Stephen, worked precincts in the coun-
ty Tuesday.

-n l A et \te8 [or y tonight, but they’re
thrilled too,” Emick said.

Of Thornton, the winner said “We
owe him a debt of gratitude for his five
years down there.”

He ran an honorable campaign The
election gods were on my side this time.
They may not be four years from now ”
Emick said.

in Roanoke County, where Thornton

supporters had depended heavily on voters
to offset Emick’s expected strength in the
counties and cities to the north, the winner
carried 9 of 22 precincts.

He did not carry the usually heavily
Republican precincts in the southwestern
part of the county but he ran close enough
to take any edge off the weight these pre-
cincts usually yield.

Emick took Covington and Clifton
l^orge, both labor-oriented cities, by sub-
stantial votes and he ran well ahead in Al-
leghany County.

There was a third man in the race,
Norman L. Douglas, who got a mere scat-
tering of votes.

Douglas, a Covington resident, had
tried unsuccessfully earlier this year to get
a three-judge federal court to order his
name put on the ballot as an independent,
raising a constitutional challenge to Virgin-
ia law which requires the filing of a candi-
date in every city and county in a legislative
district.

The court did not rule on the constitu-
tional question but said Douglas did not
have enough names on his petitions. Doug-
las then ran as a write-in candidate, a peri-
lous way to run in a time when voting
machines still confuse a lot of people.

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County Democrats
Win Control of Board

By FRAN COOMBS

Times Salem Bureau

A heavy voter turnout Tuesday in Roa-
noke County shifted control of the board of
supervisors from Republican to Democrat
for the first time in eight years and sent
two incumbent board members down to
defeat.

Witfi nearly 50 per cent of the county’s
voters going to the polls, Republican R.E.
“Bud” Hilton of the Catawba District was
defeated nearly two-to-one by his Demo-
cratic challenger, Robert E. Myers.

In the Vinton District, incumbent Dem-
ocrat John G. Seibel lost to Republican E.
Deal Tompkins, a Vinton hardware dealer.

Both Hilton and Seibel were seeking.

second four-year terms.

The Democrats picked up the Hollins
District with the election of R. Wayne
Compton, winner of a three-way contest.
Board Chairman Richard Flora, a Republi-
can who currently represents Hollins, did
not seek re-election.

Republican C. Lawrence Dodson was
returned to the board from the Windsor
Hills District in a close contest with Demo-
crat Lawrence Terry.

In the Cave Spring District, Mrs. May
W. Johnson, a Democrat, defeated Republi-
can Arthur M. Whittaker by a better than-
two-to-one margin. Mrs. Johnson also
defeated Whittaker a year ago for the same

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Democrats Win Control of Board

From Page 1

board seat in a special election for the
unexpired term of the late J. Thomas En-
gleby.

The new supervisors will take office
Jan. 1. Because of the county executive
form of government which will become ef-
fective on that date, a drawing will be held
by the county electoral board Thursday to
determine which two supervisors will serve
for only two years. The other three supervi-
sors will serve full four-year terms. Subse-
quent board members from the two
districts drawn for short terms will be
elected for four years, beginning in 1977.

The drawing is necessary because of
the staggered term arrangement required
for the board of supervisors under the new
county form of government.

Myers beat Hilton in ail seven of the

voting precincts of the Catawba District
and totaled 1,874 votes. Hilton received 971.

The winner said late Tuesday that “it’s
sobering to feel that the people in the Ca-
tawba District have given me the over-
whelming vote they did.

“I’ll try to get some of the benefits for
this area that are long overdue,” he said.

Myers cited the expansion of library
service and the extension of new sewer
lines as special concerns of his in the Ca-
tawba District.

Hilton was unavailable for comment.

Tompkins defeated Seibel in the Vinton
District by a 1,921 to 1,258 vote.

The defeated incumbent declined to
comment, but Tompkins said, “Now the
fun’s over and the work has to begin.”

The vote, Tompkins said, “shows my

support had a broad base. I’m just anxious
to get under way.”

Seibel, he said, “was certainly a worthy
opponent and ran a very fine campaign. He
gave many fine years of service to the coun-
ty.”

In the three-candidate contest in the
Hollins District, Compton was a clear win-
ner with 1,374 votes. Republican Thomas L.
Edwards and independent William F. Ward
received 923 and 653 votes respectively.

One of two incumbents returned to the
board, Dodson defeated Terry 2,162 to 1,744
in the Windsor Hills District.

Mrs. Johnson handily defeated her op-
ponent in the Cave Spring District, 2,242 to
1,001, to return to the board.

With 33,507 voters registered in Roa-
noke County, final unofficial returns
showed a turnout of 16,716.

In Re-election Bid

By RAY REED

Times Staff Writer

ROCKY MOUNT - Incum-
bent State Sen. Virgil H. Goode
Jr. easily outdistanced challeng-
er Wilbur Doyle in a confronta-
tion of a populist-style politician
and a businessman.

Goode amassed 25,292 votes to
Doyle s 4.193 in complete but
unofficial returns, sweeping ev-
ery locality in the 20th Senatori-
al District.

It was the second runaway
victory in a Senate race for the
29-year-old Goode, who took a
majority of the votes against
five other candidates in a special
election in 1973.

Goode, the youngest member

of the Senate, emphasized dur-
ing the campaign he represents
“the average man, the small
businessman, the laborer, the
teacher.*’

He attracted attention during
hearings before the State Corpo-
ration Commission last winter
on Appalachian Power Co *s re-
quest for a rate increase by
pointing out that APCo held a
large amount of land around
Smith Mountain Lake.

The Rocky Mount lawyer laid
heavy emphasis in his campaign
on apparent monopolies of ener-
gy sources by oil companies and
utilities.

Doyle, owner of a lumber sup-
ply business, spent much of the

campaign charging that Goode
does not appreciate free enter-
prise and denying Goode’s
claims that he was a tool of big
business.

Goode trampled Doyle in
Franklin County 7,975 to 552 and
in Henry County by 10.485 to
1,548. Patrick County went for
Goode 4,430 to 708.

Doyle’s strongest showing
came in Martinsville, where
Goode’s margin was 3,250 to
1,340.

A strong advantage for Goode
was his father, a longtime popu-
lar Democrat in Franklin Coun-
ty who enjoys a statewide
reputation as a down-home style
orator. J

Doyle outspent Goode in the
campaign, reporting $14,326 in
donations just before the elec-
tion. Goode said he received
$10,654.

Doyle’s contributions came
from 328 supporters, while
Goode said his smaller contribu-
tions came from 859 people.

Doyle’s largest contributors
included chairmen of the boards
of four companies, 14 presidents
of banks or companies and eight
vice presidents.

Goode’s large contributions
came from one company presi-
dent, five business owners, four
retired workers, and a truck
driver, a student, a physician
and a minister.

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Bird Beats Sen.

By PAUL DELLINGER

Times Southwest Bureau

The man who would have
been the senior Republican in
the State Senate lost his bid for
re-election to a young Wythe-
ville lawyer Tuesday.

State Sen. George Barnes car-
1 ried only his own Tazewell
County in the unofficial returns.

Danny W. Bird, son of former
State Sen. D. Woodrow Bird,
apparently took every other
county.

Totals late Tuesday night,
with some precincts still miss-
ing. showed Bird ahead 18,-
438-13,780.

With only three precincts to-
taling about 300 votes still miss-

ing in Tazewell County, Barnes
had only a slim 4,623-4.232 lead.

Bird took the other counties as
follows:

Pulaski County, 4,670-3.010;
Giles County, 3,440-2,686; Bland
County (with one large precinct
still out), 888-448, and Wythe,
Bird’s home county, 4,613-2,655.
Barnes campaigned on a

theme of seniority, noting that
he would have been the ranking
Republican in the State Senate
and would have access to Re-
publican Gov. Mills Godwin.
Bird maintained that, since
there was a Democratic majori-
ty in the legislature, he would
have more seniority than Barhes
' even though he would be a new-
comer.

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Breakdown of Balloting
In Supervisors Election

Hollins Road

Board of Supervisors
Vinton Magisterial District
Tompkins (R)

Seibel (D)
100

Bonsack

192

169

West Vinton

422

235

East Vinton

533

240

Lindenwood

439

225

Mount Pleasant

252

285

Absentee Ballots

Total

1,921

1,258

1-f * ■

Bent Mountain

Board of Supervisors
Cave Spring District

Whittaker (R)

Johnson (D)

Poages Mill

182

321

Cave Spring

251

732

Ogden A

143

409

Ogden B

119

316

Clearbrook

222

366

Absentee Ballots

Total

1,001

2,242

•

Catawba

Board of Supervisors
Catawba District

Hilton (R)

Myers (D)
104

Mason Valley

207

Glenvar

213

293

Brushy Mountain

154

200

Peters Creek

249

452

Botetourt Springs

159

489

Green Hills

110

Absentee Ballots

Total

971

1,874

1 ' .

Medley A

Board of Supervisors
Hollins District
Edwards Compton

(R) (D)

158 226

Ward

(D)

140

Medley B

107 222

138

Burlington A

206 360

165

Burlington B

205 306

118

ill

Monterey

239 253

Absentee

8 7

A-

Total

923 1,374

653

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Board of Supervisors
Windsor Hills District
Dodson (R)

201

Terry (D) !

260

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Republican Coleman Wins

By KATHY CRADDOCK

Times Shenandoah Bureau

A State Senate race in the Shenandoah
Valley that caught the eye of politicians
around the state— one that was rated a toss-
up— turned into an easy victory Tuesday for
Republican lawyer J. Marshall Coleman, a
member of the House of Delegates from
^.aunton.

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Coleman, a rising star in the GOP,
outdistanced incumbent Democrat Frank
Nolen, an Augusta County farmer and engi-
neer, by approximately 3,500 votes to win
the hotly contested seat back for the Re-
publicans.

Nolen had won the seat in a special
election a year ago, edging out former
House minority leader A. R. “Pete” Giesen
III, by a 405-vote margin. The seat was va-

cated unexpectedly last year by H. D.
“Buz” Dawbarn, a Republican who had
served, since 1967.

With voter turnout ranging from 55 to
75 per cent, Coleman carried six of the sev-
en localities in the district. In Highland
County, Nolen led with 590 votes to Cole-
man’s 559.

Coleman's lead was slimmest, but still
a lead, in Nolen’s home territory of Augus-
ta County. Unofficial results from all pre-
cincts and with a 75 per cent turnout
showed 5,497 votes for Coleman and 5,429
for Nolen. Other localities in the district
carried by Coleman include Staunton,
Waynesboro, Rockbridge County, Lexington
and Buena Vista. The latter is usually a
Democratic stronghold.

“I was very pleased to carry Buena
Vista,” said Coleman Tuesday night. “I
don’t think a Republican has ever carried
it.”

Coleman said his victory indicated vot-
er support of his strong stands on restricted
campaign financing. “I’m proud of the fact
my campaign was the broadest-based finan-
cially in the history of this area. Over 650
persons made small contributions to it,” he
said.

In conceding the race. Nolen said. “I
just lost and that’s all. Somebody has to be
the loser. I have no regrets. If the people
didn’t want me to go, I didn’t want to go.”

Nolen said he hadn't tried to analyze
what beat him. He added that he intended
to finish his brief term in the Senate and
return to being a family man before decid-
ing on future political plans.

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22nd Senatorial Voting
By Locality and Precinct

Alleghany

22nd Senatorial

Thornton (R)

1.426

Emick (D)

1,872

Bath

958

739

Botetourt

1,996

3,178

Roanoke County

, 5,148

5,258

Salem

2,108

1,826

Clifton Forge

544

759

Covington

817

1,279

Total (complete)

12,997

14,911

22nd Senatorial— Roanoke County
Thornton (R)

Catawba 69

Emick (D)
76

Mason Valley

112

149 .

Glenvar

289

217

Brushy Mountain

190

164

Peters Creek

323

382

Botetourt Springs

269

331

Green Hill

109

Medley A

236

303

Medley B

218

269

Burlington A

298

434

Burlington B

263

374

Monterey

251

332

Edgewood

202

289

Windsor Hills 1A

282

180

Windsor Hills IB

228

155

Windsor Hills 2A

349

329

Windsor Hills 2B

276

246

Oak Grove A

393

323

Oak Grove B

360

314

Bent Mountain

Poages Mill

282

212

Absentee Ballots

Total

5,148

5,258

North Salem 1

22nd Senatorial— Salem

Thornton (R)

265

Emick (D)
220

North Salem 2

440

230

South Salem 1

190

173

South Salem 2

157

243

East Salem

102

130

West Salem

272

223

Conehurst

100

117 ;

Beverly Heights

183

163

Hidden Valley

260

200

Southside Hills

108

Absentee Ballots

Total

2,108

1,826

7 *

I 1

hrxas.

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Times Photo by Bill Sizemore

All Voted Out

This unidentified campaign worker looks
typically exhausted at the end of election
day in Montgomery County. She was work-
ing at Precinct D-I, the National Guard
Armory in Christiansburg when she sat
down on the curb for a breather.

Prosecutor
Upset in Franklin

ROCKY MOUNT - Rocky
Mount lawyer William N. Alex-
ander II upset incumbent Rob-
ert McLaughlin to become
commonwealth’s attorney of
Franklin County Tuesday.
Alexander received 4.371 votes
McLaughlin’s 3,965 to provide

the only surprise in Franklin
County’s elections.

In the sheriff’s race, former
state trooper and ABC investiga-
tor W. Q. Overton polled 5,048
votes to defeat Bob Johnson, a
former deputy U.S. marshal,
who took 3,500 votes.

Sheriff Files 2 Suits

COVINGTON (AP)— Devious
campaign tactics sometimes
come into play around election
time, but Alleghany County
Sheriff Max W. Swoope thinks
his opponent went too far.

And to prove his point,
Swoope has filed libel suits seek-
ing $100,000 damages each from
two men — his opponent in
Tuesday’s election, Clinton Fri-
dley, and Gail A. Landis Jr., a
former Covington resident who
new lives in Roanoke.

Swoope said in the suits filed
Monday that letters written by
Landis and sent to area resi-
dents charged he was negligent
in performing his duties as sher-
iff. The letters urged Fridley’s
election to the sheriff’s post, he
said.

The suit claimed that the let-
ters “were published with reck-
less disregard for the truth” and
were “false, malicious and done
with evil intent.”

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Torrid Contest

Morye Out polls Challenger

Bv GEOFF SEAMANS

Times New River Bureau

CHRISTIANSBURG - State Sen. Mad-
ison E. Marye, a Shawsville service station
operator and farmer, swept to victory Tues-
day over Republican challenger Raymond
D. Roberts.

With all 64 precincts reporting in the
sprawling 37th Senatorial District. Marye
polled 16,331 votes, to 12,328 for Roberts,
according to unofficial figures.

The incumbent Democrat carried all
six counties and cities in the district.

Marye carried the populous Montgom-
ery County, where both candidates live, by
a margin of better than three to two. Marye
got 6,258 votes and Roberts received 3,960.

Marye also easily carried Radford. Ga-
lax and Floyd County.

In Radford, he got 1,327 votes. Roberts
received 849 votes.

In Galax*, it was 944 to.628 in Marye's
favor. Marye carried Floyd, 1.621 to 1.124.

In traditionally Republican Grayson
and Carroll counties, the margins were
smaller. In Grayson, Marye defeated Rob-
erts, 2,739 to 2,515. And in Carroll he got
3,442 votes, while Roberts polled 3,252
votes.

The victory of Marye appeared to solid-
ify the Democrats 1 hold on the 37th Dis-
trict, which had been in Republican hands
for years until Marye's upset victory in a
special election two years ago.

In that election, Marye defeated Del.
Jerry H. Geisler, who appeared headed for
victory in his race for re-election Tuesday.

Republican Roberts, a former Mont-
gomery County School Board chairman,
had waged an active campaign in an effort
to regain the seat which had been held by

such GOP leaders as Lt. Gov. John N. Dal-
ton; U. S. District Judge Ted Dalton, the
lieutenant governor s father; and U.S. Dis-
trict Judge James Turk. Radford is the Dal-
tons 1 hometown. Despite the active
campaigning by both men, few serious is-
sues were raised in the race. Roberts and
Marye both campaigned against gun control
legislation and both indicated support for
ratification of the proposed Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA), expected to come up
in the 1976 General Assembly.

But Marye, who became a folk hero in
Democratic circles when he first won his
seat, appeared to cash in on his reputation
as a consumer advocate, especially in his
questioning of utility rate increases.

Roberts also may have been hurt in
normally Republican areas by his past
membership in the Democratic party, a fact
which the Marye campaign made sure was
well known throughout the district.

ROCKY MOUNT-Youthful
State Sen. Virgil H. Goode Jr.,
who said he represents “the av-
erage man, the small business-
man, the laborer and the
teacher,” was re-elected yester-
day in a landslide vote.

Goode, a 29-year-old lawyer
and Democrat, rolled up 25,292
votes in carrying every locality
in the 20th Senatorial District.
Wilbur Doyle, a Henry County
businessman, got 4,193 votes.

The only surprise in the
Franklin County race came
when William N. Alexander II, a
Rocky Mount lawyer, beat in-
cumbent Robert McLaughlin to
become commonwealth’s attor-
ney of Franklin County.

Goode wins easily
in Franklin vole

Alexander received 4,371 votes
to McLaughlin’s 3,965.

In the sheriff’s race, W. Q.
“Quint” Overton, former state
trooper and ABC investigator,
defeated Bob Johnson, a former
deputy U. S. marshal, 5,048 to
3,500.

Sheriff John Price did not run
for re-election.

Goode’s success in keeping his
Senate seat is his second show
of strength. He took a majority
of votes against Five other candi-
dates in a special election in
1973.

Goode attracted attention dur-
. ing hearings before the State
Corporation Commission last
winter when Appalachian Pow-

er Co. was seeking a rate in-
crease.

Goode pointed out that Appa-
lachian owned a large amount of
land around Smith Mountain
Lake that was not used in gener-
ating power.

Goode also laid a heavy em-
phasis in his campaign on what
he termed monopolies of energy
sources by oil companies and
utilities.

Doyle, owner of a lumber sup-
ply business, spent much of his
campaign charging that Goode
does not appreciate free enter-
prise and denying Goode s
claims that Doyle was a tool of
big business.

In the House of Delegates

November 5 ^ 1975 _

race in the 9th District, incum-
bents Lacy Putney and Charles
Gunn Jr., both independents,
carried Franklin County by com-
fortable margins against three
other candidates.

William J. Walker, unopposed
in the clerk of courts election,
received 5,312 votes and Doris
Brown, unopposed for treasurer,
got 6,198.

In the board of supervisors
race, J. Clark Jamison Jr., de-
feated Clarence A. Milliron in
the Blackwater district. B. P.
“Billy” Jeter won over A. W.
Lynch in Gills Creek District
and Blain Halterman beat Ira L.
Milliron II. Other supervisors
were unopposed.

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Supervisors’

ballots tallied
by districts

Board of Supervisors
Vinton Magisterial District

Hollins Road

Tompkins (R)

Seibel (D)
100

Bfonsack

192

169

West Vinton

422

235

East Vinton

533

240

Lindenwood

439

225

Mount Pleasant

252

285

Absentee Ballots

Total

1,921

1,258

•

Bent Mountain

Board of Supervisors
Cave Spring District

Whittaker (R)

Johnson (D)
72

Poages Mill

182

321

Cave Spring

251

732

Ogden A

143

409

Ogden B

119

316

! Clearbrook

222

366

Absentee Ballots

! Total

1,001

2,242

1 | S

Catawba

Board of Supervisors
Catawba District

Hilton (R)

Myers (D)
104

Mason Valley

207

Glenvar

213

293

Brushy Mountain

154

200

Peters Creek

249

452

Botetourt Springs

159

489

Green Hills

110

Absentee ^Ballots

Total '

971

1,874

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bo ait of Supervisors
Hollins District

Edwards Compton Ward

Medley A

(D)

226

(D)

140

Medley B

107

222

138

Burlington A

206

360

165

Burlington B

205

306

118

Monterey

239

253

Absentee

Total

923

1,374

653

Edgewood

Board of Supervisors
Windsor Hills District
Dodson (R)

201

Terry (D)
260

Windsor Hills 1A

243

215

Windsor Hills IB

219

159

Windsor Hills 2A

381

292

Windsor Hills 2B

280

234

Oak Grove A

421

281

Oak Grove B

376

289

Absentee Ballots

Total

2,162

1,744

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Voters revamp
Bedford hoard

The seven-man Bedford Coun-
ty Board of Supervisors will
have four new members next
.year as a result of elections yes-
terday in which three incum-
bents were defeated.

/ The fourth newcomer is Hu-
bert Roberts, who beat farmer
J. Alfred Johnson 338 to 283 for
the seat left vacant by the resig-
nation of Tom Dooley.

In the First District John H.
Sublett ousted incumbent Carl-
ton H. McKee 246 to 209. Wil-
liam Patterson finished third
with 171 votes.

Also defeating incumbents
were Aubrey M. Whorley, a Car-
nation field representative, and
,J. Everette Fauber III, an archi-
tect. Whorley defeated J. Ray
Turner almost 2 to 1-636 to 368.
Fauber defeated conservative
Buick dealer John L. Brown in a
close race 465 to 419.

Conservative preacher the
Rev. H. L. Cooper was the only
incumbent to retain his seat in a
contested election. He beat mer-
chant A. J. Fielder. Incumbents
Scott A. May and John Penn
Oliver were unopposed.

All the incumbent constitu-

tional officers were returned.
Only Sheriff Carl Wells and
Treasurer Mrs. Edna Murray
had opposition. Both won easily,

In the race for the 23rd Dis-
trict. State Senate Seat, the coun-
ty voted for native son William
0. McCabe 2,913 to 2,253, while
the City of Bedford went for his
opponent Elliot S. Schewel 916
to 558. Schewel, a Lynchburg
businessman, won the the race
for the seat representing Lynch-
burg, Bedford, Bedford County
and Amherst County.

In the race for the House, of
Delegates, incumbents Lacey E.
Putney and Charles W. “Bunny”
Gunn Jr. won by wide margins
in Bedford city and county.
Their opponents were Shuler A.
Kaiser, the mayor of Buena Vis-
ta, and Mrs. Alice Rabe of Lex-
ington— both Democrats— and
William H. Whitlock, the lone
Republican. Gunn and Putney
are independents.

A house is being burglarized
somewhere in the United
States every 20 seconds. I

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Norfolk
Pledges Aid
To Barter

Landmark News Service

NORFOLK - With one dis-
senting vote, the city council
approved an appropriation of
$15,000 to help bring the Barter
Theatre to the Chrysler Museum
this winter.

A Tidwewater board of trus-
tees is attempting to raise
$60,000 to underwrite the profes-
sional theater’s first 13-week
season.

With the city’s grant, the
board has raised about two-
thirds of the money needed.

The council passed the appro-
priation after little discussion by
the members, but after hearing
lengthy discussion on the merits
and demerits of its vote from
speakers representing four
theaters in Norfolk.

Election winners

STATE SENATE

21st District (Roanoke City-portion of Roa-
noke County)— William B. Hopkins, D.

22nd District (Roanoke County-Salem-Al-
leghany-Bath-Botetourt-Covington-Clifton
Forge)— Dudley J. “Buzz” Emick, D.

20th District (Franklin-Henry-Patrick-Mar-
tinsville) — Virgil H. Goode Jr., D.

23rd District (Bedford-Lynchburg-Am-
herst) — Elliott Schewel, D.

37th District (Carroll-Fioyd-Grayson-Mont-
gomery-Galax-Radford)— Madison E. Marye, D.

38th District (Craig-Pulaski-Wythe-Bland-
Tazewell-Giles)— Daniel W. Bird Jr., D.

HOUSE OF DELEGATES

7th District (Roanoke City)— A. Victor
Thomas, D; Ray L. Garland, R.

8th District (Roanoke County-SaIem)-C.
Richard Cranwell, D; Raymond R. Robrecht, R.

5th District (Craig-Giles-Pulaski)-C. Jeffer-
son Stafford, R.

6th District (Floyd-Montgomery-Radford-
Carroll)— Jerry H. Geisler, R;*W. Ward Teel, R.

9th District (Franklin-Bedford County-Rock-
bridge-Bedford City-Lexington-Buena Vista)—
Charles W. Gunn, I; Lacey E. Putney, 1.

10th District (Alleghany-Botetourt-Clifton
Forge-Covington)— William T. Wilson, D.

ROANOKE COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Catawba District— Robert E. Myers, D.

Cave Spring District— May W. Johnson, D.

Hollins District— R. Wayne Compton, D.

Windsor Hills District— C. Lawrence Dod-
son, R.

Vinton District— E. Deal Tompkins, R.

ROANOKE COUNTY CLERK OF COURTS

Elizabeth W. Stokes, R.

ROANOKE COUNTY SHERIFF

0. S. Foster, R.

ROANOKE COUNTY

COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY

John N. Lampros, R.

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Salem, county
House voting
in 8th District

8th District House— Roanoke County

Catawba

Robrecht

(R)

Cranwell

(D)

107

Williams

(D)

Mason Valley

141

177

112

Glenvar

315

287

225

Brushy Mountain

180

242

166

Peters Creek

407

466

306

Botetourt Springs

372

415

233

Green Hill

106

126

Medley A

283

358

244

Medley B

233

324

242

Burlington A

399

513

288

Burlington B

367

423

235

Monterey

373

340

197

Edgewood

241

319

240

Windsor Hills 1A

329

267

163

Windsor Hills IB

272

230

153

Windsor Hills 2A

415

444

294

Windsor Hills 2B

359

352

184

Oak Grove A

460

455

313

Oak Grove B

465

429

265

Hollins Road

122

Bonsack

154

260

190

West Vinton

234

540

347

East Vinton

301

637

410

Lindenwood

323

502

337

Mount Pleasant

277

401

235

Bent Mountain

Poages Mill

304

294

185

Cave Spring

649

615

381

Ogden A

357

372

208

Ogden B

258

283

183

Clearbrook

365

320

205

Absentee Ballots

101

Total

9,291

10,797

6,836

House of Delegates-
Robrecht

North Salem 1 ® 70

-Salem

Cranwell

(D)

308

Williams

(D)

263

North Salem 2

456

387

332

South Salem 1

217

234

205

South Salem 2

203

277

243

East Salem

111

177

135

West Salem

298

318

276

Conehurst

123

148

126

Beverly Heights

202

222

171

Hidden Valley

277

282

285

Southside Hills

107

160

138

Absentee Ballots

Total

2,294

2,542

2.198

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of major N.C. city

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FawttP^!f Ch ’-i'?° °P erates a across the state.

with her htbanf has^becoS “Pv F j nCh ’ who won 90 P«r

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Fayetteville city government m a , Up ? et Durham ’ s two-term
Tuesday by a 6-1 marjn ove S am f s Ha ^ins and

js, e sayjarBaaa*:

Belk to a fourth term as mayor.

Raleigh voters elected former
state legislator Jyles J. Coggins
mayor over councilman J. Oliver
Williams. He suceeds Clarence
Lightner, the first black mayor
of a major southern city.

Greensboro voters reelected
Jim Melvin as mayor and in
Asheville, city councilman Eu-
gene Ochsenreiter Jr. led an
11-man field for mayor.

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Woman elected

supervisor

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new CASTLE - M. Dot
Crush unseated incumbent Paul
Humphreys in the New Castle
yes ^ da y to become
Craig County s first woman
member of the board of supervi-
sors. r

Mrs. Crush unofficially got 356

votes to 192 for Humphreys.

The only other incumbent in
county races failing to win re-
election was Commonwealth’s
Atty Thomas J. Surface, who

£ as d ^ ated 1^093 to 469 by
Edward Jasie. y

A surprise developed in the
race for a board of supervisors
f e . a f “ t he Simmonsville Dis-
trict. Write-in candidate B. Joe
Duncan garnered. 228 votes in
challenging incumbent Zane
Jones,.who got 250 votes.

In the Alleghany District,

where the incumbent did not
run Charles M. Old was elected
with 199 votes to 142 by his clos-
est challenger, Byron D. Wil-
liams.

In the 38th Senatorial District
race, Republican incumbent
gW jerries los t to Daniel

Bird Jr. 973 to 578,

For the House of Delegates,
Jefferson Stafford edged out
Harry Foglesong 769 to 745.

In balloting for clerk of courts
Wayne J. Oliver was re-elected
by a whopping 1,318 to 279 mar-
gin over J. R. “Pat” Murphy.

Billy B. McPherson, the in-
cumbent sheriff, blitzed write-in
Donnie Fisher 1,549 to 35.

of Revenue R
H^‘P h Carper and Treasurer
Hugh T. Estes were re-elected
unopposed.

The World-News, Roanoke, Va., Wednesday, November 5, 1975

City balloting
in House race

7th District House— Roanoke

Ferguson Garland

Nolan

Thomas

(R)

(D)

Highland 1

118

106

177

Highland 2

132

229

198

248

Jefferson 1

125

Jefferson 2

112

143

238

304

Jefferson 3

114

164

183

230

Jefferson 4

144

224

127

249

Tinker

112

149

377

Williamson Road 1

140

241

178

290

Williamson Road 2

212

367

286

459

Williamson Road 3

166

159

221

Williamson Road 4

195

379

158

345

Williamson Road 5

196

276

206

327

Williamson Road 6

212

323

223

369

Lincoln Terrace

219

169

236

Melrose

217

237

273 '

Eureka Park

119

277

288

378

Villa Heights

115

235

205

282

Washington Heights

174

265

191

344

Westside

127

182

180

235

Raleigh Court 1

198

323

210

343

Raleigh Court 2

204

355

181

344

Raleigh Court 3

188

317

202

307

Raleigh Court 4

179

321

155

291

Raleigh Court 5

190

319

129

259

Wasena

142

239

155

277

Fishburn Park

191

312

125

248

Grandin Court

265

398

149

337

South Roanoke 1

311

480

144

417

South Roanoke 2

346

546

160

398

Riverdale

141

215

170

337

Absentee Ballots

100

101

Total

4,885

8,147

5,421

9,128

Robert E. Myers
Catawba District

R. Wayne Compton
Hollins District

E. Deal Tompkins
Vinton District

New members
oi supervisors
for valley unity

By CHARLES STEBBINS
Staff Writer

The election of three new
members to the Roanoke Coun-
ty Board of Supervisors is not
expected to bring about radical
changes but it is expected to
create a fresh approach to coop-
eration with other governments
in the Roanoke Valley.

All three of the new members
who will join the board Jan. 1
said today they are opposed to
annexation or consolidation of
county land with other valley
governments but indicated they
would support more cooperation
in the valley.

The election also is not ex-
pected to automatically put Roa-
noke County back into the Fifth
Planning District Commission.
But the election will make a re-
turn to the commission a much
more real possibility.

Two of the new members said
they would support a return to
the commission but one said he
would not without changes in
the planning district’s adminis-
trative staff and commission
membership.

With two members remaining
on the board who have not pub-
licly advocated a return to the
commission, it would indicate a
3-2 majority for remaining out.

The election of three new
members also shifted control of
the board from the Republicans
to the Democrats by a 3-2 mar-
gin.

The three men sent to the
board in yesterday’s election
are:

R. Wayne Compton, a Demo-
crat, representing the Hollins
Magisterial District; Robert E
Myers, a Democrat, representing
the Catawba District; and Deal
Tompkins, a Republican, repre-
senting the Vinton District.

Their election sent two board

members down to defeat— R. E.
“Bud” Hilton, a Republican in
the Catawba District; and John
Seibel, a Democrat in the Vinton
District.

In the Hollins District the cur-
rent board member, Richard
Flora, was not seeking re-elec-
tion. Compton won over two
other opponents— Thomas Ed-
wards, a Republican; and Wil-
liam F. “Sonny” Ward, an
independent

Two other board members
won re-election.

Lawrence Dodson, a Republi-

can, beat out Lawrence Terry, a
Democrat, in the Windsor Hills
District; and Mrs. May Johnson,
a Democrat, won over Arthur
Whittaker, a Republican, in the
Cave Spring District.

The three new members pri-
marily represent youth. Tomp-
kins, a hardware store owner in
Vinton, is 29. Compton, a press-
man for Times-World, is 38, and
Meyers, a labor union official, is
52.

All have been active in politi-
cal or civic affairs in the Roa-
noke Valley for a number of
years.

New supervisors

THE DAILY REVIEW.

Butler issues
newsletter for
area residents

Sixth District

Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler today issued the
Washington Report
newsletter to his
constituents. The
newsletter deals with the
problems of excessive
government regulation. A
copy of the newsletter is
enclosed.

Copies of the
Washington Report are
mailed to all residents of
the Sixth District of
Virginia who request a
copy.

_ THE ROAHOKE TIMES, Tuesday, November 4, 1975 jj

Butler Lauds Action for Retarded

By WHIT WIRSING

Times Staff Writer

The 94th Congress “may very
well be remembered as the Con-
gress which took landmark steps
to guarantee the rights of the
mentally retarded and handi-
capped individuals,” Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler told members
of the Roanoke Area Association
for Retarded Citizens Monday.

The 6th District congressman
said, “We are well on our way
to passing a major revision of
the Education for the Handi-
capped Act which will similarly
assert the rights of the mentally
retarded in the area of educa-
tion.”

Butler told about 150 mem-
bers of the association at a din-
ner meeting at the Sheraton Inn
that President Ford last month
signed the Developmental Disa-
bilities Assistance and Bill of
Rights Act which defines and
protects the rights of the men-
tally retarded and individuals
affected by epilepsy, cerebral
palsy, autism and severe dyslex-
ia.

The new law requires the
state plan for a developmental
disabilities program “to include

provisions to eliminate inappro-
priate institutional placement, to
improve the quality of institu-
tional placement, to provide ear-
ly screening, diagnosis and
evaluation of developmentally
disabled infants and preschool
children; to guarantee the pro-
tection of human rights of the
developmentally disabled and to
include other safeguards.

He said the major innovation
of the bill, however, “is the in-
clusion of a bill of rights for the
developmentally disabled.

“The rights defined by this act
are the right to appropriate
treatment, services and habilita-
tion for their disability; the the
right to treatment individually
designed to maximize the poten-
tial of the person, and to provide
treatment in the least restrictive

setting possible; and the right to
expect minimum standards of
treatment, services and habita-
tion from facilities supported by
federal funds,” Butler said.

Butler said the House of Rep-
resentatives also recently passed
legislation “directing the secre-
tary of Health, Education and
Welfare to support research in
genetic diseases” because 80 per
cent of the incidence of retarda-
tion is genetically related.”

The bill authorizes $20 million
for fiscal 1976 and $25 million
for fiscal 1977.

While many states have com-
plained about government regu-
lations in the health and mental
health fields, “the attitude of
Virginia’s Department of Mental
Health ^nd Mental Retardation
has been to meet these regula-
tions, not to fight them in their
continuing efforts to improve
the quality of care for the men-
tally retarded.”

“The implementation of these
regulations will cost Virginia al-
st $5 million,” said the con-
gressman. “I hope they find the
money.”

Charles Osferhoudt, a Roa-
noke attorney, was elected presi-
dent of the association at
Monday’s meeting. He succeeds
Mrs. Max A. Murray.

Other officers elected are:
Mrs. W.A. Wirth, vice president;
Robert Sherertz, secretary; and
Charles Stowe, treasurer.

Board members elected and
re-elected are: Mrs. Max Mur-
ray, Dr. Harold Haley, George
Vogel, Robert H. Teter, H.
James Hebert, Lacy L. Edwards,
and Chauncev L. Logan.

Capital Comments

THE DAILY ADVANCE, Lyn chburg, Vo., Tu«t., N ov. 4, 1975

breakfast planned

Sixth District Rep. M. Caldwell Butler will be the speaker
Friday, Dec. 12, at the first Capitol Comments meeting to be held
by the Greater Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce in its new fiscal
year.

The meeting will be a breakfast session at the Holiday Inn
South beginning at 7:45 a.m.

Other such meetings under consideration are a workshop on
communicating with government agencies and representatives, in
addition to a report on General Assembly action.

j. Ford and New York ted

su:

C 1

President Ford was right in saying
he will veto a bill to give financial aid
to New York City. The officials of
New York, city and state, for the mo-
ment are more active trying to latch
on to the federal Treasury than tackl-
ing the hard municipal tasks that must
be done.

As has been said before, not all of
New York’s problems can be blamed
on city and state, but philosophizing
should not distract from the imme-
diate urgencies. Attention is called to
a reprint today from The Wall
Street Journal entitled “New York
‘Myths.’”

'Myths'

" New York is not an especially
r city. The racial migration has
p made it poorer... New York's
If are program does not give it a
ique moral claim for federal
L. The gravy goes to the middle
xs.”

mpared to the national average of

) ^ mparea to tne national dvcidgc ui

, , i ,/ — (279. Other studies confirm that blacks

c/ //- y. - 7 j ng t 0 N ew York to earn money, not to

i r J iL A l a MiimKnr nf

budget deficits, hf €*#

welfare may have considerable merit, but
*4ew York’s welfare problem does not
give it a unique moral claim for federal
(help.

Median family income in New York City
was $9,682 in 1970, compared with $9,867
nationwide. The city’s median income was
60 per cent higher than a decade earlier;
while this was less than the 75 per cent
gain nationwide, it nonetheless represent-
I ed a healthy increase. Similarly, the pro-
portion of poverty families fell to 11.5 per
\ cent in 1970 from 15.2 per cent in I960; it
was below the national average m both
. years. During the 1950s, when the bulk of
the black migration actually took place,
the decline in low-income families was
even sharper.

The migrations undeniably did change
the city’s racial composition. In 1950 it
was 10 per cent black; in 1970, 21 per cent,
which is not at all high by the standards of
other big cities. The median income for
black families was $8,107 in New York,

go on welfare, and that a good number of
them have succeeded.

As for welfare, without question it is a
serious problem for its demoralized clients
and a large burden for the budget. But
New York is far from unique. According
to the National Center for Social Statistics,
10 9 per cent of New York’s population
receives Aid to Families with Dependent
Children. This compares to 12.8 per cent in
Newark, 13.9 per cent in Philadelphia, 14
per cent in Washington, D.C., 14.5 per cent
in Baltimore and 15.8 per cent in St. Louis.

In New York welfare payments pass
through the city, where in most locations
they are handled by counties or special
welfare districts. More significantly, New
York pays a share of the benefits out of its
own tax funds while some other cities
have been relieved of this responsibility by
their states. But in 13 states a local jurisd-
iction still puts up its own tax money to-
ward welfare. In one of two places, like
Washington, D. C., this share is larger than
it is in -New York. Yet only New York is
threatened with bankruptcy.

The Wall Street Journal

In any event, the importance of welfare
in the city’s budget is far less than first ap-
pears. Social services excluding Medicaid
constitute $2.4 billion, or nearly 20 per
cent of the current $12 billion expense
budget, but much of this is offset by re-
ceipt of state and federal reimbursement.
According to City Hall, the direct cost to
the city, including administration, is about
$600 million.

The cost of the city’s debt service last
year was nearly three times as large. And
the increase in debt service costs during
the five-month-old attempt to avert de-
fault-added interest costs, administration
of the Municipal Assistance Corp. and the
like— has already cost New York taxpayers
more than their share of the annual AFDC
payout. New York’s trouble is not welfare,
but poor management.

In addition, New York’s subsidies to the
poor are dwarfed by its subsidies to the
middle class. These include: high salaries
and unbelievable pensions for municipal
employes, free tuition at City University,
the tax loss that results from rent control,
the subsidies to the mostly defaulted
Mitchell-Lama housing. The poor typically
move too often to be helped much by rent
control, and don’t need free tuition be-
cause they could get state scholarships.
The gravy goes to the middle class.

This is the style of life to which New
York has grown accustomed. We hope that
Congress recognizes that the pressing need
is not to finance it, but to persuade the
city to change it.

. . . THE ARGUMENT for a permanent
subsidy is quite explicit: The rest of the
nation should subsidize New York because
it bears the brunt of the national problems
of race and poverty. The trouble with this
contention is that it is built on a series of
myths.

! New York is not an especially poor city.

‘ The racial migration has not made it poor-
er. It does not harbor a uniquely large pro-
portion of the “welfare class.” Its welfare
payments are not the main cause of its
budget deficits. Proposals to federalize
^welfare may have considerable merit, but
Pkew York’s welfare problem does not
give it a unique moral claim for federal
(help.

Median family income in New York City
was $9,682 in 1970, compared with $9,867
nationwide. The city’s median income was
60 per cent higher than a decade earlier;
while this was less than the 75 per cent
gain nationwide, it nonetheless represent-
I ed a healthy increase. Similarly, the pro-
portion of poverty families fell to 11.5 per
i cent in 1970 from 15.2 per cent in 1960; it
was below the national average in both
years. During the 1950s, when the bulk of
the black migration actually took place,
the decline in low-income families was
even sharper.

“New York is not an especially
poor city. The racial migration has
not made it poorer... New York’s
welfare program does not give it a
unique moral claim for federal
aid... The gravy goes to the middle
class.”

compared to the national average of
$6,279. Other studies confirm that blacks
came to New York to earn money, not to
go on welfare, and that a good number of
them have succeeded.

As for welfare, without question it is a
serious problem for its demoralized clients
and a large burden for the budget. But
New York is far from unique. According
to the National Center for Social Statistics,
10.9 per cent of New York’s population
receives Aid to Families with Dependent
Children. This compares to 12.8 per cent in
.Newark, 13.9 per cent in Philadelphia, 14
per cent in Washington, D.C., 14.5 per cent
in Baltimore and 15.8 per cent in St. Louis.

In New York welfare payments pass
through the city, where in most locations
they are handled by counties or special
welfare districts. More significantly, New
York pays a share of the benefits out of its
own tax funds while some other cities
have been relieved of this responsibility by
their states. But in 13 states a local jurisd-
iction still puts up its own tax money to-
ward welfare. In one of two places, like
Washington, D. C., this share is larger than
it is in Wew York. Yet only New York is
threatened with bankruptcy.

The Wall Street Journal

The cost of the city’s debt service last
year was nearly three times as large. And
the increase in debt service costs during
the five-month-old attempt to avert de-
fault-added interest costs, administration
of the Municipal Assistance Corp. and the
like-has already cost New York taxpayers
more than their share of the annual AFDC
payout. New York’s trouble is not welfare,
but poor management.

This is the style of life to which New
York has grown accustomed. We hope that
Congress recognizes that the pressing need
is not to finance it, but to persuade the
city to change it.

Chamber

(/f

To Hear

Butler

The Greater Lynchburg
Chamber of C ommerce will
hold its first Capitol Comments
meeting of the yeafTnday,
Dec. 1 2. /

The breakfast meeting wiliL.
Sixth District Congressman M.
yaidwell Butler is slated to get
underway at 7:45 a.m. at the
Holiday Inn - South.

Other such meetings under
consideration are a workshop
on communicating with gov-
ernment agencies and repre-
sentatives, in addition to a re-
port on General Assembly ac-
tion.

-is

TH£ gQANOKE TIMK, Tuesday, Noyembsr i iOK

Rocky Surprises Virginia GOP

By MELVILLE CARICO

Times Political Writer

State GOP Chairman George N. Mc-
Math said Monday in the wake of Vice
President Nelson Rockefeller’s unexpected
announcement that there are others who
can make President Ford a stronger run-
ning-mate in 1976.

The vice president’s decision came as a
~>rise to Republican leaders in Virginia,
Ocularly those who were in Roanoke
16 for a $100 a couple reception for

McMath, who has said on several occa-
sions many Republicans in Virginia prefer
someone else, said in a prepared statement
that “from the standpoint of practical poli-
tics I believe there are perhaps others who
would add greater strength to a national
ticket.”

McMath was in Maryland, but left his
reaction statement at his newspaper office
on the Eastern Shore to be read to inquir-
ing reporters.

Some of Rockfeller’s strongest support-

ers within the GOP heirarchy in Virginia
could not be reached.

Mrs. Cynthia Newman, member of the
GOP National Committee who supported
Rockefeller in his bid for president at the
1968 convention in Miami Beach, is out of
the country.

And former Gov. Linwood Holton, to
whom Rockefeller compared his own polit-
ical philosophy in his Oct. 16 visit to Roa-
noke, did not return a call to his
Washington law office.

Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, home for a
f Monday night speech in Roanoke, said he
feels Rockefeller has done a “first class
job” as vice president.

He attributed Rockefeller’s decision to
the disagreement with the White House
over solution of the New York default crisis
plus, perhaps, the realization that he is a
controversial figure within the GOP and
was possibly creating an embarrassment for
the President.

“He is a team player,” Butler ob-
served.

Chairman William
B Poff who was responsible for the details
of Rockefeller’s fund-raising reception in
Roanoke, said he thought the vice president
made a good impression on Virginia Re-
publicans. 8

Poff reported the Rockefeller recep-
tion grossed about $9,000, about $1,000 more
than was realized when President Ford
then vice president, came to Roanoke in
1974 for a fund rasing reception for candi-
dates for Congress.

Both Butler and Poff said they do not
feel Rockefeller will challenge Ford for the
presidental nomination in Kansas City next
year although Butler said he heard some
speculation to this effect in Washington
during the day.

No one wanted to speculate whether
Rockefeller’s decision will change former
California Gov. Ronald Reagan’s mind
about becoming a candidate for the GOP
nomination for president.

McMath has said on several occasions
he believes that if Reagan is a candidate he
will get a sizeable bloc of the Virginia dele-
gation to the national convention.

Q I n^VC a di uui^».

election interest centers on

Senior Writer

Local election interest will fo-
cus on Roanoke County tomor-
row where voters will elect five
supervisors, a sheriff, common-
wealth’s attorney, clerk of
courts and vote for two mem-
bers of the House of Delegates
and a state senator.

Salem residents also will vote
in the election for the two
House members and the state
senator.

A fairly heavy turnout is ex-
pected in both Salem and the
county.

Roanokers will elect two
House members in what is ex-
pected to be a light vojter turn-
out.

The top interest in the valley,
perhaps, is the race between
Sen. David F. Thornton of Salem
and his Democratic opponent,
Dudley J. “Buzz” Emick.

It is being watched by politi-
cians statewide and was one of
the campaigns in which Gov.
Mills E. Godwin Jr. decided to
take part.

Salem and the county have a
total of 42,730 voters, making
them the main battleground in
the district. The district includes

most of Roanoke County, Salem,
Covington and Clifton Forge and
Bath, Botetourt and Alleghany
counties.

Running for the two House
seats for Salem and the county
are three lawyers— Del. Ray
Robrecht, Republican; Del. C.
Richard Cranwell, Democrat;
and Donald A. Williams, Cran-
well’s running mate.

Four are running for the two
Roanoke City House seats: Del.
Ray Garland and Michael S.
Ferguson, Republicans; and Del.
A. Victor Thomas and Tom No-
lan, Democrats.

In the strictly Roanoke Coun-

ty races, the closest one is gener-
ally judged to be between Mrs.
Elizabeth Stokes, JRepublican
seeking her seco-^ term as clerk
of Circuit Cov . ^ and heipemo-
cratic oppom ^ Damet* Wein-
man.

The only other constitutional
officer being challenged is Sher-
iff 0. S. Foster, Republican, His
Democratic opponent is Joseph
J. Cunningham.

John N. Lampros, a Republi-
can, is unopposed for common-
wealth’s attorney.

Running for the board of su-
pervisors are:

R. E. “Bud” Hilton, Republi-

can incumbent; and Robert E.
Myers, Democrat, Catawba Dis-
trict.

Arthur M. “Art” Whittaker,
Republican; and May Johnson,
Democratic incumbent, Cave
Spring.

Thomas L. Edwards, Republi-
can; R. Wayne Compton, Demo-
crat; and William F. “Sonny”
Ward, independent, in Hollins.
Richard Flora, Republican in-
cumbent, is not running again.

C. Lawrence Dodson, Republi-
can incumbent; and Lawrence
E. Terrv, Democrat, in Windsor
Hills.

E. Deal Tompkins, Republi-

mm v ,. ■ .

Thornton-Emick

THE ROANOKE TIMES. Saturday, Hotember 1, 1975

Race Heats Up

By MELVILLE CARICO

Tlmts Political Writor

State Sen. David F. Thornton,
one of four Senate Republicans
running for re-election, and
Dudley J. “Buzz” Emick, a
Democrat who served one term
in the House, have knocked on
thousands of doors in a district
so large it takes two hours to
drive between two of its locali-
ties — Salem and Hot Springs. \

Emick, who lives in Botetourt
County and practices law at Fin-
castle, started out at Hot Springs
and knocked on doors all the
way to Roanoke County which,
because of its size, will decide
the winner Tuesday .

Salem and Roanoke County,
which have a tendency to stick
together against outsiders, is the
home base of Thornton, vice
president for development at
Roanoke College, who won the
first time in a special election in
1970.

Thornton has been working
toward Covington and Hot
Springs, hoping to cut down
Emick’s anticipated lead in the
mountains, while this weekend
finds Emick working Roanoke
County where he will win or
lose.

The district, No. 22, is one of
the largest geographically and
one of the most politically com-
plex in the state. It covers Salem
and most of Roanoke County,
Botetourt and Alleghany coun-
ties, Gifton Forge and Coving-
ton, and extends up in the
mountains to Bath County.

Sen. David Thornton, left, and former Del. Dudley 'Buzz' Emick

Its problems range from those
of thickly populated suburbia to
farms along the back roads.

Politicians have been cynical
about Democrats’ chances of
winning back the district since
Bankruptcy Judge H. Clyde
Pearson, a young Republican,
defeated the late State Sen. Hale
Collins of Covington after Roa-
noke County was added to Col-
lins’ old district.

Party labels probably will
weigh heavier in the outcome
than clear-cut differences be-
tween the two candidates, and—
based purely on old election re-
turns and the size of Roanoke
County— Emick started out the
underdog.

Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. was
in Salem for a campaign lunch-
eon Tuesday to urge the re-elec-
tion of Thornton and Del.
Raymond R. Robrecht because,
he said, they are legislators who
can be counted on to stand by
him against deficit spending.

Emick smiled and took it in
stride.

“He didn’t say anything bad
about me, did he?” was Em-
ick’s reaction to the governor’s
endorsement of his opponent.

Both have been talking about
holding the line on spending.

Both want to abolish Virgin-
ia’s annexation laws and make it
impossible for Roanoke to an-

nex any more of Roanoke Coun-
ty. Both are in favor of the
Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA) for Women.

How do the candidates them-
selves see the difference?

“By nature I’m more combat-
ive, more anxious to get into the
thick of things...,” Emick, who is
36, says. He agrees that philo-
sophically there is not too much
difference between him and
Thornton.

Thornton, 50, who was raised
in the Salem Times Register
which was published by his fa-
ther, says he believes the Gener-
al Assembly— now with an
overwhelming majority of law-

yers— needs a more broadly
based representation. He also
says he feels it is important to
have a sizeable Republican dele-
gation to strengthen the two-
party system in Virginia politics
and government.

Basically, Emick questions
Thornton’s effectiveness.

The candidates* exchanges
started getting sharper last week
as the pace of the tiring, door-
knocking campaign and the like-
lihood of a close outcome appar-
ently began to get to them.

Thornton in a speech claimed
that when Emick was in the
House he “ducked’* votes on
two controversial issues— a land
use bill in 1972 and a soil ero-
siion bill in 1973.

Emick came back with a
speech calling Thornton a “do-
nothing” senator in the 1974 and
1975 battles over annexation leg-
islation. He said Thornton sat on
his hands while the county’s two
House members were trying to
head off any more annexation of
Roanoke County.

Thornton tells his audiences
he believes that he has been ef-
fective, that in Richmond when
the chips are down on vital is-
sues facing the state there is
very little Democrat vs Republi-
can partisanship.

Thornton points to his seniori-
ty dating back to 1970 when he
succeeded Judge Pearson who
resigned to accept the judgeship
of the bankruptcy court. Then it
was called referee in bankrupt-
cy.

“I’m not a quitter....,” Thorn-
ton told a Botetourt County din-
ner.

Emick, after one term in the
House, did not seek re-election
in 1973.

“He (Emick) decided to run
for our seat in the State Senate
only two short years after he
turned his back on the House of
Delegates because he didn’t
have time to serve,” Thornton
told his GOP audience in Em-
ick’s home county.

Emick replied sharply that he
could not seek re-election then
for personal financial reasons,
his law practice and young fami-
ly, and he said so then. Now, he
says, things have changed and he
has the time to campaign and
serve in Richmomd and lashed

out at Thornton for advocating
the “divine right of kings’* in
urging his own re-election.

Norman Douglas, a resident of
Covington, filed as an indepen-
dent candidate but the State
Board of Elections ruled he did
not properly qualify by filing his
petition with the clerk of court
in each city or county. He
brought suit in federal court in
Roanoke, but Judge James C.
Turk ruled Douglas did not have
sufficient names on his petition,
withholding judgment on the
constitutionality of an indepen-
dent having to file everywhere
in the district.

Kept off the ballot, Douglas is
running as a write-in candidate.
Writing in a vote on a voting
machine is a procedure that can
baffle the rank-andrfile voters,
particularly those who are ter-
rorized by the machines to begin
with. Because his name is not on
the ballot and he has no party
going for him, Douglas’ vote is
not expected to be sufficient to
influence the outcome of the
Thornton-Emick contest. He got
1,570 votes in running third in a
House race two years ago.

Douglas said after the suit, in
which he represented himself,
that he will pursue the constitu-
tional issue he raised after the
election.

Meanwhile, Thornton and
Emick keep on shaking hands
with time running out.

The World-News, Roanoke, Va., Saturday, November 1, 1975

^Tuesday’s election

1 1 seeking 5 seals
on county board

The following article is
one of a series of stories
dealing with political con-
tests in the Roanoke Valiev
and vicinity and is 'Pre-
sented in an effort to in-
form voters about the
various contests prior to
Election Day Nov. 4.

ten men and one woman are
seeking five seats on the Roa-
noke County Board of Supervi-
sors in an election campaign
that so far has been quiet and
frfee of major issues or contro-
versy.

From outward appearances, it
is difficult to tell that a cam-
paign is under way. Most of the
candidates are confining their
electioneering to door knocking,
a few public appearances and
. some direct mail.

C^Each of the county’s five mag-
isterial districts have contests,
with two seeking office in four
'of the districts and three in one.
Four of the candidates are pres-
ent members of the board seek-
ing re-election.

Both of the major parties,
Democrats and Republicans,
have candidates in each of the
magisterial districts along with
_ an independent in one.

Those in the race are:

.Windsor Hills District-- C.
Lawrence Dodson, a Republican
and currently a member of the
board; and Lawrence E. Terry,
ft Democrat.

Cave Spring District— Mrs.

’ May Johnson, a Democrat and
currently a member of the
* bdard; and Arthur M. Whittaker,
^Republican.

Vinton District— John G. Sei-
bel, a Democrat and currently a
•/ member of the board; and Deal
^ -Tompkins, a Republican.

Catawba District— R. E.
“Bud” Hilton, a Republican and
r currently a member of the
board; and Robert E. Myers, a
Democrat.

Hollins District— Thomas L.
Edwards, a Republican; Roberta
Wayne Compton, Democrat; anal
WilliamE. “Sonny” Ward, Inde- 1
pendent.

The one district that does not]
have an incumbent member

the board running for re-election
is Hollins. In that district, Rich-
ard Flora, who is now chairman
of the board, is not seeking a
new term.

Flora is a Republican, and
when he decided against seeking
a new term, the party nominat-
ed Edwards.

In the Windsor Hills district,
the race pits incumbent Law-
rence Dodson against Lawrence
Terry. Dodson is pastor of Wind-
sor Hills Baptist Church and be-
came a board member four
years ago.

Terry is an executive with the
C&P Telephone Co. and has long
been active in civic and Demo-
cratic party activities.

The Cave Spring district race
has two persons who opposed
each other in a special election
earlier this year. In that election,
however, there were three can-
didates. Thomas Beasley Jr., had
been appointed to the board to
fill the unexpired term of the
late Thomas Engleby. He was to
serve until a special election
could be held. Beasley ran in the
special election as an indepen-
dent along with Mrs. Johnson
ana Whittaker.

Mrs. Johnson is a government
teacher at Cave Spring High
School and Whittaker is station
manager for Piedmont Airlines
at Woodrum Airport. f

Whittaker contends that Mrs.
Johnson has a conflict of inter-
est in being on the county pay-
roll as a school teacher and
serving on the board of supervi-
sors which must act on the
school budget at the beginning
of each fiscal year.

Mrs. Johnson denies that her
position as a teacher influences
her actions as a supervisor.

In the Vinton District, Seibel,
who is now vice chairman of the
board, is seeking re-election
against Tompkins, owner of a
hardware store. Seibel is retired
but formerly was a dairyman
and executive director of the
Roanoke Milk Producers Asso-
ciation.

In the Catawba District, in-
cumbent Hilton is owner of a
central station burglar alarm
business and his opponent,
Myers, is business manager and
secretary-treasurer for the Con-
struction and General Laborers
Local Union 980.

Hilton, who is a fiscal conserv-
ative, created a stir last year
when he said it would make po-
litical and economic sense to di-.
vide the county between I
Roanoke and Salem. He has not
publicly advocated that since
j then.

Hilton said the main issues
facing the board of supervisors
today are to get new jail and
courthouse facilities and find a
better way of taxing real estate
so rural areas have a lower rate.

Myers said he does not want
the county divided between the
cities, would seek lower taxes
for senior citizens on fixed in-
come, would seek a better sys-
tem of property assessment.

The race in the Hollins Dis-
trict pits a college teacher, a real
estate man and a newspaper
pressman in a three-way contest.

In that race, Edwards is an
economics teacher at Hollins
College, Compton is a pressman I
i for Times-World Corp. and Ward
I is a Realtor with the Rudy Cox
I Realtors.

Returns From Precincts
In City House Contest

7th District House— Roanoke

Ferguson Garland Nolan Thomas

(R)

(D)

<D)

Highland 1

118

106

177

Highland 2

132

229

198

248

Jefferson 1

125

Jefferson 2

112

143

238

304

Jefferson 3

114

164

183

230

Jefferson 4

144

224

127

249

Tinker

112

149

377

Williamson Road 1

140

241

178

290

Williamson Road 2

212

367

286

459

Williamson Road 3

166

159

221

Williamson Road 4

195

379

158

345

Williamson Road 5

196

276

206

327

Williamson Road 6

212

323

223

369

Lincoln Terrace

219

169

236

Melrose

217

237

273

Eureka Park

119

277

289

378

Villa Heights

115

235

205

282

Washington Heights

174

265

191

344

Westside

127

182

180

235

Raleigh Court 1

198

323

210

343

Raleigh Court 2

204

355

181

344

Raleigh Court 3

188

317

202

307

Raleigh Court 4

179

321

155

291

Raleigh Court 5

190

319

129

259

Wasena

142

239

155

277

Fishbum Park

191

312

125

248

Grandin Court

265

398

149

337

South Roanoke 1

311

480

144

417

South Roanoke 2

346

546

160

398

Riverdale

141

215

170

337

Absentee Ballots

100

101

Total

4,885

8,147

5,421

9,128

Incumbenia

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6 ^e

By MELVILLE CARICO

Times Political Writer

Gov Mills E. Godwin Jr. and other Vir-
ginians Tuesday night awaited election re-
suits whieh will determine the makeup of
the General Assembly with which the gov-
ernor will have to deal in January.

Scattered returns from across the state
indicated few if any upsets.

But the fact that, overall, the General
Assembly would keep its moderate to con-
servative image was preordained before the
polls closed at 7 p.m.

With voting machines in use in all
cities and the large precincts in all counties,
the wait for election returns promised to be
over quickly for most of the candidates. No
long hours would have to be spent counting
paper ballots, as in years past.

The first returns indicated:

%Oa y

6or

• House Majority Leader James M.
Thomson, chief advocate of collective bar-
gaining for public employes and a target of
Gov. Godwin in the campaign, won re-elec-
tion in Alexandria.

• State Sen. Leroy S. Bendheim, the
oldest member of the Senate, was defeated
in Alexandria by Wiley F. Mitchell, a law-
yer for the Southern Railroad. The upset
gave the Republicans one additional Senate
seat in early balloting.

• Joseph T. Fitzpatrick, Democratic
party chairman in Virginia, was elected to
the State Senate in Norfolk along with two
incumbent Democrats. (State GOP Chair-
man George N. McMath was unopposed in
seeking re-election to the House on the
Eastern Shore.)

• State Sen. A. Joe Canada, Republi-
can, widely known for his efforts to ban the

use of throwaway soft drink bottles and
beer cans in Virginia, won re-election at
Virginia Beach.

• State Sen. William E. Fears, Demo-
crat, a militant foe of no-fault automobile
insurance, won re-election on the Eastern
Shore.

• De j5. A. Victor Thomas, Democrat,
and Ray Garland, Republican, won re-elec-
tion in the City of Roanoke.

• State Sen. Madison E. Marye, a
Democrat, held a comfortable lead over
Republican challenger Raymond D. Rob-
erts in the 37th district, stretching from
Montgomery County to Galax.

• State Sen. Virgil H. Goode Jr., Dem-
ocrat, took an early lead over Wilbur S.
Doyle in the 20th district, embracing the
MartinsviUe-Henry-Franklin area.

in Early Returns

• Democratic challenger M. Thomas
Mullis and Republican Del. W. Ward Teel
led the balloting in the 6th House District,
with Mullis holding a comfortable margin
in early returns. Del. Jerry H. Giesler, Re-
publican, closely followed in the race for
the district’s two seats, with Democrat
George B. Cooley Sr. trailing.

With the exception of the challenge
faced in Alexandria by Del. James M.
Thomson, the House majority leader, the
Democratic power structure of the House
was unchallenged.

Del. A. L. Philpott of Bassett, chairman
of the Democratic caucus, was unopposed.
The caucus, made up of all members of the
House majority, already has begun flexing,
an independent political muscle in relations
with Gov. Godwin, and it is expected to be

even more critical of Godwin in the 1976
legislative session.

Three veteran Democrats on the unop-
posed ticket in Richmond will continue to
head important committees— Del. Edward
E. Lane, appropriations; Del. George Allen,
courts of justice; and Del. Eleanor P. Shep-
pard, education.

Del. Archie A. Campbell of Wytheville,
chairman of the Finance Committee which
handles all tax legislation, also was unop-
posed.

Del. Orby L. Cantrell of Wise County,
second in seniority in the House, was fa-
vored to win re-election and continue to
head the Committee on Counties, Cities and
Towns which will handle the bills coming

See Page 7, Col. 1
Other Election Stories — Page 7

Most Incumbents Lead in Early Returns

From Page 1

out of the Stuart Commission’s study of
annexation and consolidation.

Senate Majority Leader William B.
Hopkins of Roanoke also was unopposed.
Hopkins is chairman of the Senate Commit-
tee on Local Government. That committee,
like Cantrell’s, will be on the front line of
the coming battle over annexation.

State Sen. E. E. Willey of Richmond,

president pro tern of the Senate, faced only
token opposition. He has been a member of
the upper chamber since 1952.

Willey is chairman of the Senate Fi-
nance Committee which means that two
Richmond legislators— Willey and Lane-
have more say-so than anyone else on the
makeup and philosophy of state budgeting.

Although they are Democrats, neither
Willey nor Lane is tightly aligned with the

straight-ticket Democrats in the General
Assembly. They will provide Gov. Godwin
with his anchormen in the expected 1976
legislative fight over appropriations.

Mullis Leads Field
In 6th District Race

tight race for the two House of
Delegates seats from the 6th
Legislative District appeared to
be developing Tuesday night on

n ° early returns fr °m

the northern part of the district.

Democrat Tom Mullis was
leading the pack, with 2,864
votes.

wIrH CU T ml J ent J R , ePUb,iCanS VV -
Ward Teel and Jerry H. Geisler

lively 240 and 2,187 VOtes res P ec ‘

Democrat George Cooley Sr.
was running neck and neck with
trie incumbents, with 2,202
votes. ’

No returns were yet reported,
however, from Floyd and Car-
roll counties, and the returns

partial. 1

Mullis’ early lead w’as on the
basis of Radford results.

Clifton Forge

Re-elects

Sheriff

CLIFTON FORGE - Incum-
bent Russell B. Smith III far
outdistanced his nearest com-

KLd n ay theraCef ° rCitysher '

Smith captured 765 votes, ac-
c "« n «. to unofficial results
while Thomas R. Woods re-

wT d 5 , 36 ;. A third contender,
wuiiam J. Monroe, received 110.

County Winners

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Robert E. Myers

Catawba District

R. Wayne Compton

Hollins District

C. Lawrence Dodson

Windsor Hills District

E. Deal Tompkins

Vinton District

May W. Johnson

Cave Spring District

SHERIFF
0. S. Foster

CLERK OF COURT
Elizabeth W. Stokes

3 Officials
Lose Races
In Bedford

BEDFORD— The seven-man
Bedford County Board of Super-
visors will have four new faces
in January.

John L. Brown, a conserva-
tive, was unseated by J. Everett
Fauber III, a political moderate
and architect by profession. The,
final vote was 465 to 419.

J. Ray Turner, a dairy farmer
who had served one four-year
term, lost to Aubrey M. VVhor-
ley. The vote, with four fifths of
the precincts tallied, was 468 to
237.

Carlton L. McKee, Hardy, also
a one-term board member, lost
to John H. Sublett of Chambliss-
burg, an employe of* a Roanoke
food company.

Running third in the three-
way race with most of the votes
in was William Patterson.

>V;.v

Kentucky Re-elects Carroll

•:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -
Democratic Gov. Julian Carroll
won a decisive victory Tuesday
over Republican Robert Gable,
whose predicted antibusing
backlash against the incumbent
* to materialize.

With 38. 1 per cent of 3,31 1 pre-
cincts reporting, Narroll had
169,800 votes and Gable had
87,959.

Democrat Thelma Stovall, a
veteran state officeholder, be-
came the first woman elected

lieutenant governor of Ken-
tucky, defeating Republican
Shirley Palmer-Ball, a business-
man making his first bid for
public office.

With 37.6 per cent of the bal-
lots counted, Mrs. Stovall had
148,620 votes to Palmer-Ball’s
78,)98.

Gable, a conservative, had
counted on a sizeable margin in
Jefferson County — which in-
cludes Louisville — where
court-ordered school busing has

generated fierce controversy.
But Carroll held his own in that
populous area.

Gable also needed an enor-
mous margin in the heavily GOP
5th District of Southeastern
Kentucky, where he won handi-
ly but not overwhelmingly.

“We’ve proven the old adage
that the harder you work, the
luckier you get,” said Carroll,
who was first elected to a state

government post 14 years ago as
a legislator.

The Democrats swept seven
other state secondary offices.

More than 64 legislative con- 1
tests and numerous local races
were also on Tuesday’s ballot,
along with two proposed consti-
tutional amendments, one to re-
vamp the state’s court system
and the other to liberalize home-
stead exemptions.

Mayor White Holds Boston Lead

BOSTON (AP) — Mayor Kev-
in H. White took what his head-
quarters said was a 6,000-vote
lead over challenger Joseph F.
Timilty on Tuesday, but a
spokeswoman for Timilty said
. the race was too close to call.

City Hall tabulations were in-
complete several hours after the
polls closed, but figures supplied
by White’s organization showed
the mayor had 77,935 votes to
71,835 for Timilty with an unde-
termined number of the city’s
252 precincts counted.

There are about 250,000 regis-
tered voters in the city, and elec-
tion officials had forecast a 58

per cent turnout.

“We’ve got the edge and I
would assume we could hold it,”
said Ralph Whitehead, White’s
* P^ss secretary. But Connie Kas-
telnik, speaking for Timilty, pre-
dicted the race “might go right
down to the wire.”

Both candidates are Demo-
crats. Boston’s mayoral elections
are nonpartisan.

The temperature in Boston
was 74 on Tuesday — a 75-year
record — and the balmy weath-
er was expected to assure a
large turnout among elderly vot-
ers, traditional White support-
ers.

A generally lacklustre cam-
paign had been waged until re-
cent publication of investigative
reports on allegations of illegal
fund-raising activities in past
elections by White supporters.
The reports cited races back to
1970.

White, 46, has served two
four-year terms as mayor, win-
ning easily both times in cam-
paigns against Louise Day Hicks,
a leader of the city’s antibusing
forces.

This year, however, school in-
tegration was not a major issue,
because the positions of White
and Timilty were similar. Both

opposed busing but said they
believed that the law — includ-
ing a U.S. District Court integra-
tion order — should be
enforced.

Timilty, 37, was on the Boston
City Council until 1971, when he
became a state senator.

Woman

By WHIT WIRSING

Time* Staff Writer

/t/aCASTLE— M rs. Rebecca Hancock
jfyusl in, 33, a Fincastle lawyer and new-
comer to politics, scored a major politi-
cal upset Tuesday by defeating Botetourt
County’s veteran Commonwealth’s Atty.
E.C. Westerman Jr. by nearly 2-1 in the
general election.

The vote was 3,295 for Mrs. Hanslin,
1,946 for Westerman, who has been com-
monwealth’s attorney for 20 years. Wes-
terman said as the polls closed, ‘‘I feel
good (about the race). We’ve had a large
turnout, and I think that’s good for the
Democrats.” The majority of voters in
Botetourt are registered as Democrats.

But within two hours, with eight of 18
precincts reported, it was obvious that
Mrs. Hanslin was going to win in a big
way.

Louis Campbell, pharmacist and Dem-
ocratic member of the board of supervi-
sors from the Amsterdam District, was
defeated by Robert M. Omer, 34, a Re-
publican newcomer. A veteran political

observer said Campbell’s ties with Wes-
terman helped defeat him. The vote was
724 for Omer, 457 for Campbell.

Omer, maintenance coordinator with
Citadel Cement Corp., lives in DaleviUe
and is a former justice of the peace in
the Hollins area.

Until Tuesday, all Botetourt’s supervi-
sors and constitutional officers were
Democrats. But Mrs. Hanslin and Omer
were the only two Republicans to win.

In board of supervisor races, the fol-

lowing Democrats were elected or re-
elected:

• Blue Ridge District: J.E. Tyler, 611
votes, over Marvin Downey, 528 votes.

• Buchanan District: Edward Watts,
782 votes, unopposed, succeeds Jesse W.
Jones, an independent who did not seek
re-election.

• Fincastle District: Mary Pauley, 438
votes, over A.R. Coffey, 295 votes.

• Valley District: Harold Wilhelm, the
current board chairman, 497 votes, over
Russell Mays, 224 votes.

Constitutional officers re-elected
were:

• County Circuit Court Clerk: George
E. Holt Jr., unopposed, 3,842 votes.

• Sheriff: Norman Sprinkle, unop-
posed, 3,791 votes.

• Treasurer: Arthur Williamson, un-
opposed, 3,892 votes.

• Commissioner of Revenue: Harvey
Ransone, 3,495 votes, over Downey M.
Ware, 1,557 votes.

Mrs. Hanslin, who drove more than

Vinton Backs Nursing Facility

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Vinton Town Council gave its support
Tuesday night to plans for a $2.1 million
nursing home in Vinton.

Council approved a resolution saying
the facility is needed. The resolution will be
considered when the “certificate of need”
for the facility is reviewed by the Roanoke
Valley Regional Health Services Planning

Council Nov. 13 and the State Health De-
partment.

The 120-bed facility would be built on a
3.3-acre site on Clearview Drive by Fralin
and Waldron, Inc., through its subsidiary,
Medical Facilities of America.

Horace Fralin showed the council ten-
tative plans for the building and said con-

struction could be completed in two years.

He said a nursing home is needed in
the Vinton area because all other nursing
homes in the Roanoke Valley are in Roa-
noke or west of the city.

The council also approved a resolution
urging congressional representatives to sup-
nort rontinued revenue sharing*

10,000 miles in two months to knock on
doors and talk to county residents, criti-
cized Westerman for being a “part-time”
commonwealth’s attorney. Westerman
has a private law practice.

She charged that the commonwealth’s
attorney was doing too much plea bar-
gaining, dealing ineffectively with the
drug and burglary problems. She also
accused him of conflict of interest for ac-
cepting public funds as rent for an office
he partly owns.

Mrs. Hanslin, a graduate of George-
town University Law Center, asked why,
if Westerman worked at his job only part
time, he needed an assistant? She point-
ed out that total expenses incurred by
his office were $26,000.

Westerman’s assistant, Louis K. Camp-
bell, is the son of the defeated board
member.

Westerman hit the campaign trail
hard, too, and told The Times Tuesday,
“I was just running on my record.” He
said his reception during door-to-door
campaigning had been good.

Sheriff, Clerk
Retain Posts
In County Vote

By FRAN COOMBS

Times Salem Bureau

Roanoke County Sheriff O.S. Foster
and Circuit Court Clerk Elizabeth W. Stokes
beat back their Democratic challengers
Tuesday to successfully retain their consti-
tutional offices.

The Republican incumbents were re-
elected despite two of Roanoke Valley’s
hottest campaigns waged by their oppo-
nents.

Foster overcame Democrat J.J. Cun-
ningham, a former investigator with the
county sheriff’s department and the Roa-
noke City commonwealth’s attorney’s of-
fice, by a vote of 9,053 to 7,251.

Mrs. Stokes, running for her second
eight-year term, turned back the challenge
of Democrat Daniel J. Weinman by a tigh-
ter 1,000-vote margin. The totals from the
county’s 32 precincts showed her the win-
ner by an 8,572 to 7,617 count.

A Virginia state trooper for 15 years,
Foster was first elected sheriff of Roanoke
County in 1967. Tuesday’s victory paved the
way for his third four-year term.

Commonwealth’s Atty.John N. Lam-
pros, a Republican incumbent, was elected
to his second four-year term. Unopposed
for re-ection, he received 12,697 votes.

Paul D. Hollyfield and Leo E. Painter,
the only candidates for the posts, were
elected Soil and Water Conservation direc-
tors for the Blue Ridge District.

In defeating Cunningham, Foster cap-
tured only 55 per cent of the vote in the
sheriff’s race, a significant decrease from
the 76 per cent he received in 1971. In the

Sheriff Foster Mrs. Stokes

previous election, the sheriff collected 10,-
407 votes to his challenger's 3,355.

Mrs. Stokes, however, maintained vir-
tually the same victory margin she achieved
in her first bid for office in 1967. At that
time, she received 7,250 votes to her oppo-
nent’s 6,429 or 52 per cent of the vote.

In Tuesday’s outing, she received 53
per cent of the vote in the clerk's race.

Both the incumbents in this year’s elec-
tion ran on their records in office and the
promise to continue the same policies.

Cunningham and Weinman challenged
the orientations of the two offices and of-
fered drastic changes in the programs as
run by the Republican officeholders.

Cunningham specifically charged Fos-
ter with concentrating the sheriff’s depart-
ment’s attention on traffic matters to the
detriment of residential police patrols.

Emick Out Front

In Early Ballots

By BEN BEAGLE

Times Staff Writer

Democratic challenger Dudley J.
“Buzz” Emick Jr., a Fincastle lawyer, took
an early lead Tuesday night as scattered
returns came in from the 22nd Senatorial
District— which stretches from the Roa-
noke Valley to Bath County.

On the basis of unofficial returns Em-
ick, who had served one term in the House
before taking on Republican State Sen.
David F. Thornton, a Salem educator, had a
600-plus vote lead over Thornton, trying for
his second regular term in the Senate.

But the returns from Roanoke County,
traditionally a heavily Republican voting
county, were far from complete early Tues-
day night

Emick, however, was scoring heavily in
other parts of the district on Thornton
where another Democrat had failed in 1971
to dent him badly.

Thornton was holding his own, though,
in Roanoke County with eight of the coun-
ty’s precincts counted, although the votes
were closer than some had expected. The
story was the same in Salem, the incum-
bent senator’s hometown, with all but two
of 12 precincts reporting.

In the portion of Roanoke County that
is within the district and in Salem, Thorn-
ton was leading Emick by fewer than 282
votes.

Dudley J. Emick Jr.

With three of 18 Alleghany County
precincts reporting, Emick was ahead of
Thornton by 735 votes.

Large portions of suburban, generally
Republican, precincts in the southwestern
part of the county were unheard from early
Tuesday night.

In Clifton Forge, a labor and railroad
town, Emick was ahead of Thornton 759 to
544 with all of the small city’s precincts
reporting.

Norman L. Douglas, who ran as a
write-in candidate after he failed by court
action to get his name on the ballot as an
independent, was not even in the race as
the scattered returns came in.

In Alleghany County, for example,
Douglas, who lives in Covington, failed to
get a single vote.

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